The head of Air Force Special Operations Command said the service plans to test an experimental type of laser destined for a gunship next year. [More]I wrote about similar efforts back at the turn of the century for Guns and Ammo in "Things to Come" (no longer online), so what we're hearing about in the media is a tactical release that in no way reflects how advanced things really are -- or perhaps are not.
Noting that when I was a kid it took a roomful of computers to do calculations, and how things have scaled down to practically infinitely more compact packages that can do practically infinitely more, can hand phasers be that far away? And any guesses on whether they'll be available to We the People?
[Via Jess]
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