There was at least one or two successful tests of an energy beam weapon like two years ago, of course funding has since been cut due to the ongoing wars.
I think personally that tactical anti-missile defense is more important than strategic. We know that there are a great many countries that have missile systems that can go hundreds to thousands of miles, but only something like 5 countries that can produce ballistic missiles, and three of them are our allies. Cameron Childress wrote: > They may have been failures, but I would VERY much hope that the actual > full capabilities of the US military are not common knowledge to you or I. > > -Cameron > > G Money wrote: >> We couldn't really pick off hundreds of inbound ballistic missiles like we >> were shooting clay pigeons though, could we? I mean, shooting down a >> predictably orbiting, dead satellite is one thing....but i thought most of >> our Star Wars intercept tests had been pretty much failures?? >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:254750 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
