Maury Markowitz
From the Great White North!
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I'm trying to track down references to an SDI test that I'm pretty sure used the MIRCL laser and SeaLite beam director. The test is mentioned here:
www.csmonitor.com
I recall this being on the nightly newscasts. After much hype about SDI, little had occurred and then this test was played on every channel. In it, the laser fires and the missile fuselage, from a Titan IIRC, basically just disappeared. In an instant, a hole slightly larger than the fuselage simply appeared and the upper remaining part hung in the air for a split second like Wile E before he looks down.
I later heard the test was faked by placing small explosives on the fuselage. Watching YouTube videos of other tests using the same laser that take many seconds to destroy a drone and then only do so by making it lose control, and simply considering its rather limited power, it seems highly likely something extremely fishy was going on here.
Does anyone have any useful references to this?
Battling with beams
About a dozen people, mainly military brass, were crowded into a control bunker three stories beneath the New Mexico desert here. Peering anxiously
I recall this being on the nightly newscasts. After much hype about SDI, little had occurred and then this test was played on every channel. In it, the laser fires and the missile fuselage, from a Titan IIRC, basically just disappeared. In an instant, a hole slightly larger than the fuselage simply appeared and the upper remaining part hung in the air for a split second like Wile E before he looks down.
I later heard the test was faked by placing small explosives on the fuselage. Watching YouTube videos of other tests using the same laser that take many seconds to destroy a drone and then only do so by making it lose control, and simply considering its rather limited power, it seems highly likely something extremely fishy was going on here.
Does anyone have any useful references to this?
