During WWII air craft carriers, advanced jet aircraft, and tanks were the keys to victory, and has been so for all these years. Since the end of WWII, they've been the backbone of military effectiveness. Well, that's over!
Some years ago there was a SciFi show that was a spin off from the Stargate series called Stargate Universe. In one of the episodes they came across "Berserker Drones" which attacked en masse. In spite of the advance technology of their ship, they had to develop an escape plan to avoid being destroyed. The numbers were just too great.
That's playing out now, and we saw how Ukraine destroyed Russia's Black Sea fleet with a drone attack. Extensive use of massed drones is going to be impossible to
stop, just like trying to defend against a killer bee hive.
These are not people, they're machines, totally dispensable, and made to be so, and easily replaced. The only training involved deals with technicians who are nowhere near the battle field sitting in front of a computer/video console directing the actions. When there's a lot of drones, there will
always be some that will break through. The only effective counter measure is destroying the communication connection between the drones and the technicians. With advancements, that's not so easy now.
For some years I've been
following this effort to create military lasers, and written about it,
and just about everyone laughed, just as so many laughed at Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, AKA, Star Wars program to shoot down Russian missiles. It's not so funny now, and once again we see Reagan was far smarter than his critics as he saw farther, deeper, and wider, than all the arrogant, smarmy leftist snots who called him stupid.
From all I read I knew what was on the
horizon, and now we're seeing the beginnings of it, including Israel. Even H.G. Wells saw that potential in 1895 in his book The War of the Worlds.
“However it is done, it is certain that a beam of heat is the
essence of the matter. Heat, and invisible, instead of visible, light.
Whatever is combustible flashes into flame at its touch, lead runs like
water, it softens iron, cracks and melts glass …”
Since the discovery of laser in technology in 1960 there have been amazing advancements. Let's understand, just because the atom bomb wasn't created until 1945, the principles for an atomic bomb were outlined by physicists in the 1890's. The same will be true of militarized lasers, and in point of fact, the Air Force actually developed a system that worked in the early 2000's.
The
problem was all of them required huge equipment and massive amounts of
energy. In the early 2000s, the US Air Force tried packing a chemical
laser, the Airborne Laser YAL1, onto a Boeing 747. It worked, shooting
down a couple of training targets, but cost billions of dollars and was
ultimately canned.
But research didn't end, and now they've come up with something called the The Laser Weapons System (LaWS):
......one of the first of a new breed of
more compact systems based on the fibre laser. Fibre lasers can
generate laser beams at efficiencies of 40%, far higher than
conventional lasers, and achieve kilowatt powers. High power fibre
lasers are already used in industrial cutting and welding machines, some
with laser power of 100 kW and capable of welding blocks of metal parts
30 cm thick. A 100 kW infra-red laser is exactly the ‘heat-ray’ that Wells
imagined—equivalent to using a giant, kilometre-wide magnifying glass to
focus the sun’s heat energy onto a single point the size of your
fingernail.
H.G. Wells' "invisible, inevitable sword of
heat.”
Here's a video showing an effective laser weapon already being used by U.S Navy.
This year the UK tested the ‘DragonFire’ Laser Weapon, and it was successful against an aerial target, claiming:
The laser-directed energy weapon (LDEW) is claimed
to have the
ability to hit a precision target the size of a coin from a kilometre
away. Although the exact range of the weapon is classified, the ministry
said that it can engage with any visible target. The MoD said that the
average cost of firing the laser is around £10 per shot, meaning that
the weapon has the “potential to be a long-term low-cost alternative to
certain tasks missiles currently carry out.”
The real drive behind this effective long range military use of lasers is the militarization of space, including efforts to install a base on the
moon. There's nothing there, what do they need a base on the moon for?
A launch pad to explore space? That's not the goal. Militarization
of space is the goal! It's coming, have no doubt about it.
Not today, not tomorrow, but
it's coming, and sooner than we think.
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