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Defense officials have asked for $304 million to fund research into space-based lasers, particle beams, and other new forms of missile defense next year.
Defense officials want to test a neutral particle-beam in orbit in fiscal 2023 as part of a ramped-up effort to explore various types of space-based weaponry. They’ve asked for $304 million in the 2020 budget to develop such beams, more powerful lasers, and other new tech for next-generation missile defense. Such weapons are needed, they say, to counter new missiles from China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. But just figuring out what might work is a difficult technical challenge.
So the Pentagon is undertaking two studies. The first is a $15 million exploration of whether satellites outfitted with lasers might be able to disable enemy missiles coming off the launch pad. Defense officialshave said previously that these lasers would need to be in the megawatt class. They expect to finish the study within six months.
They’re also pouring money into a study of space-based neutral particle beams, a different form […]
Maybe we could backtrack for just a moment and figure out how [likely] the US pulled off a cyber attack on Venezuela’s power grid.
Join the discussion…I agree John: I believe the US, probably CIA, had a hand in Venezuela’s current problems, and will continue until they convert to the US’s demands. That is the way this lousy country takes over other country’s governments. I am ashamed to be a USA citizen. I consider myself a citizen of the Universe in which all living things are equal in all respects, and no one has power over any other being.