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Seems like the pentagon has bought some nice, new, shiny ray guns and just can't seem to get their act together enough to deploy them.


"It's very frustrating when you know you've got a solution that's being ignored," he said. "The technology is the easy part."

Just reading that makes me cringe.

From the article on Yahoo,


"It's a great technology with enormous potential, but I think the environment's not strong for it," said James Jay Carafano, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation who blames the military and Congress for not spending enough on getting directed energy to the front. "The tragedy is that I think it's exactly the right time for this."

So you've got a tool that is non-lethal, inexpensive, and available. But nobody wants to use it. Read the article and draw your own conclusions.

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