Apples for the Army? Wow, the old guard has finally moved on. Let the flame wars commence!
The US Army hopes, within a few years, to deploy a plasma shield — a machine that generates a protective screen of dazzling mid-air explosions — to stun and disorient an enemy.
The Department of Defense’s Iris project will put an internet router in space by the start of 2009. It will allow voice, video and data communications for US troops using standards developed for the internet.
The most powerful potential energy source presently thought to be available to humanity is being researched/developed by the Air Force.
The U.S. government is seeking to develop a powerful ground-based laser weapon that would use beams of concentrated light to destroy enemy satellites in orbit. The largely secret project is part of a wide-ranging effort to develop space both defensive and offensive. The White House has recently sought to play down the issue of space arms.
“China has fired high-power lasers at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory in… a test of Chinese ability to blind the spacecraft,” Defense News is reporting. And, at least in theory, those lasers might be able temporarily take offline America’s most powerful orbiting spies, like the giant electro-optical Keyhole spacecraft..
The Marine Corps calls the concept the Small Unit Space Transport and Insertion Capability (Sustain). The concept is to deliver strategic equipment or a small squad of soldiers to any point on the globe — even the most hard-to-reach location — within hours of need.
“In the early 1960s, America’s top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.”