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Trump's Plan To Zap Incoming Missiles With Lasers Is Back To The Future!
Earlier this year, President Trump laid out an ambitious plan for U.S. missile defenses. "Our goal is simple," Trump said during a speech in January. "To ensure that we can detect and destroy any missile launched against the United States, anywhere, anytime, anyplace."
To reach that goal, the administration's proposed new defense budget calls for hundreds of millions of dollars to study the use of lasers and particle beams in space. "It's new technology," the president said.
Except it isn't.
The defenses outlined by Trump look almost exactly like a decade-old program known as the Strategic Defense Initiative. That plan was laid out by President Ronald Reagan in a 1983 speech. Reagan's program, dubbed "Star Wars," imagined an impenetrable shield that would include orbiting lasers and particle beams to zap then-Soviet missiles before they could hit their targets.
single weapon is never where it's supposed to be for it to work well, so you'd need a constellation of them," Grego says. "It becomes really expensive really quickly."
A 2012 study by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences said a space-based defense system would require many hundreds of satellites and might cost as much as $300 billion dollars.
Oh Geez, you do realize, they have secret experimental defense R&D facilities all over the country...right? What do you think they have been doing for the past 20-30 yrs? LOL Check out what Bigelow Aerospace has been doing lately, hmm. I wonder?!!
They have weapons systems, that if the general public saw them, they would think it was from a sci fi movie!
Not to mention, remember how Trump mentioned creating that 'US Space force' awhile back? That was a precursor of something BIG.
Trump's Plan To Zap Incoming Missiles With Lasers Is Back To The Future!
Earlier this year, President Trump laid out an ambitious plan for U.S. missile defenses. "Our goal is simple," Trump said during a speech in January. "To ensure that we can detect and destroy any missile launched against the United States, anywhere, anytime, anyplace."
To reach that goal, the administration's proposed new defense budget calls for hundreds of millions of dollars to study the use of lasers and particle beams in space. "It's new technology," the president said.
Except it isn't.
The defenses outlined by Trump look almost exactly like a decade-old program known as the Strategic Defense Initiative. That plan was laid out by President Ronald Reagan in a 1983 speech. Reagan's program, dubbed "Star Wars," imagined an impenetrable shield that would include orbiting lasers and particle beams to zap then-Soviet missiles before they could hit their targets.
single weapon is never where it's supposed to be for it to work well, so you'd need a constellation of them," Grego says. "It becomes really expensive really quickly."
A 2012 study by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences said a space-based defense system would require many hundreds of satellites and might cost as much as $300 billion dollars.
Oh Geez, you do realize, they have secret experimental defense R&D facilities all over the country...right? What do you think they have been doing for the past 20-30 yrs? LOL Check out what Bigelow Aerospace has been doing lately, hmm. I wonder?!!
They have weapons systems, that if the general public saw them, they would think it was from a sci fi movie!
Not to mention, remember how Trump mentioned creating that 'US Space force' awhile back? That was a precursor of something BIG.
Agreed, who cares if it costs us 300 billion? then again the only time the right cares about the budget, is if the left is spending their share of taxpayers money.
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Trump wants to play Buck Rodgers
then again the only time the right cares about the budget, is if the left is spending their share of taxpayers money.
