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DARPA Testing Planes With a 'Star Wars'-Style Laser Cannon

Posted September 16, 2014 10:06 AM

From CNET News:

We don't have X-wing fighters just yet, but we may soon have their laser weapons. DARPA is working on a system that's downright Lucasian.

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SolarEagle Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: by the beach in Florida Posts: 33392 Good Answers: 1817	#1 Re: DARPA Testing Planes With a 'Star Wars'-Style Laser Cannon 09/16/2014 7:15 PM
	Shown here with designer..... Ming "The Merciless" Ruler of the Universe.... __________________ All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
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jack of all trades Guru Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 8777 Good Answers: 376	#2 In reply to #1 Re: DARPA Testing Planes With a 'Star Wars'-Style Laser Cannon 09/17/2014 3:57 PM
	Isn't this in fact the Chinese version instead? __________________ jack of all trades
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lyn Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 42355 Good Answers: 1693	#3 Re: DARPA Testing Planes With a 'Star Wars'-Style Laser Cannon 09/17/2014 6:46 PM
	This can't hold a flashlight to the LynDoor™Industries Photon Torpedo launcher.
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