C-Net – by Eric MackPrepare yourself for a future filled with real-life pew pew! The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working with Lockheed Martin to test “a new beam control turret… to give 360-degree coverage for high-energy laser weapons operating on military aircraft.”
In other words, it stuck a primitive (by rebel standards) “Star Wars”-style laser cannon on a fighter jet and flew it over Michigan eight times.
“These initial flight tests validate the performance of our ABC turret design,” Lockheed’s Doug Graham said. in a release.
That ABC stands for Aero-adaptive Aero-optic Beam Control, which is designed to allow high-energy lasers to fire on enemy aircraft and missiles from a full 360 degrees — above, below, and behind the aircraft.
The test flights demonstrated the airworthiness of the turret, but it doesn’t appear that anyone or anything in the Great Lakes region was actually zapped as part of testing.
Still, this represents a significant move toward the inevitable merging of the “Star Wars” universe with our own so-called “reality.” We’ve already seen the Navy’s laser weapon that’s set to deploy, and science has discovered how to create a real-life lightsaber, so perhaps it would be wise to start scanning the galaxies not just for potentially habitable exoplanets, but for planet-size super weapons as well.
http://www.cnet.com/news/darpa-is-testing-planes-with-a-star-wars-style-laser-cannon/
It’s amazing how fast the military is advancing with all of these new weapon technologies when war is going on at a never-ending pace. It almost makes you realize where all of your money and taxes are going to. I’m so happy that all of my money is going to some unnecessary laser thingy, rather than for my family and to put food on the table.
If this war continues for another 10 years, I’m sure we’ll see a Death Star and an army of terminators, especially with the way they are promoting so much robot propaganda these days.