Message posted by Smythers on October 19, 2019 at 7:12:02 PST:
and this is now back in the main stream. The link is to a piece 20 years ago now - so this all in all is around 40 to 45 YEARS old. Why am I posting this? Because these laser spheres make a great defensive capability against hypersonic airframes of all sorts. Hitting a dense ball of plasma at 120,000 feet is going to ruin your day. Almsot like a tic tac that could be visible on radars and IR tracking apparatus over a Navy fleet. Food for thought as the Pentagon are now investing major money in this talking / visible field of energetic research. Publically this time but wrapped up in the 'less than lethal' field - to make people hear and see things.
So this was a thing back in the day - lasers creating plasma balls that shifted and shimmered in the night skies, the science teams sweeping them across the heavens like red / burnt orange egg shaped chariots of the gods...
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