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Originally posted by FredT
Again, if they used it how come there were no fires. As I pointed out, its one thing to heat up a paper thin missile casing and ignite the fuel, its another to heat up structural steel that thick and NOT cause fires in the internal structure???
Originally posted by FredT
Total inability to prove not withstanding, lets say they have all three. ill even buy into your agrument that its related to environmental issues and the adaptive mirror is a bust when it comes to quelling atmospheric blooming.: Why be so close in as I stated? Why orbit around the structure. Surely if you say the ABL in flight you would notice right?
Originally posted by FredT
Why would they need to heat the structure at all?
Originally posted by FredT
Total inability to prove not withstanding, lets say they have all three...
Originally posted by 11 11
You just said size doesn't matter, now you are worried about the size of the metal on the exterior of the WTC. I don't understand your intentions, or your way of thought.
Besides, I don't think a laser of this size acts in any way close to "basic physics".
While theater ballistic missiles typically have steel skins of roughly 3-4mm thickness, a liquid fueled ICBM will probably have a skin made of 2mm thick aluminum. (This presumes it used structure similar to that of the Russian SS-18 missile, a very large two-stage liquid fueled ICBM.) Thus, damaging the ICBM skin will require less energy.
www.fas.org...
These are all real.
The reason one would need to get closer, is to make the laser more powerfull! Such a simple explaination.
The ABL will first see the missile plume several hundred kilometers away using its infrared seekers. Its two low power illuminating lasers will then determine the target range and get initial information about the atmosphere between the ABL and the missile. They will then track the missile and provide aiming data to the ABL.
www.fas.org...
Because the WTC's were designed to withstand the impact of a jet. If they truely wanted the WTC's to fall, they would softwen the exterior so the jet can penetrate the exterior and mess up the interior.
The structural system, deriving from the I.B.M. Building in Seattle, is impressively simple. The 208-foot wide facade is, in effect, a prefabricated steel lattice, with columns on 39-inch centers acting as wind bracing to resist all overturning forces; the central core takes only the gravity loads of the building. www.civil.usyd.edu.au...
Originally posted by FredT
Besides, I don't think a laser of this size acts in any way close to "basic physics".
Implying that a larger laser can defy physics?
Originally posted by FredT
As I was trying to point out and aparently failed in your case is that the structure of a missile casing is realtivly thin.
Originally posted by FredT
Are you inplying that the core structure of the WTC is that thin?
Originally posted by FredT
Real theories but very little evidence that they progressed beyond the intial research stage. The ABL is by far the furthest along and it has yet to demonstrate anything of real value YET.
Originally posted by FredT
Yet you seem to think that this oddly shaped 747 was loitering over downtown Manhattan? Any you just noticed it now?
Originally posted by FredT
But the exterior of the WTC was a facade and the core was responsable for the gravity loads
Originally posted by FredT
So the plane should have and did have no problem getting through the inner perimeter. If the F-4 can power through all that concrete eh? I ask again why would the facade need to be heated up?
Originally posted by FredT
and again, why no sign of fire, windows blasting outward ) or inward for that matter secondary to the thermal stress and the actual impact of the laser etc?
Originally posted by FredT
Again the tracking laser stays on for the engagement it would not turn off then the blast of the main. If you did that last milisecond correction could not be made and the motion of the A/c would make it impossible to dwell on the target.
You can have a space based one that shoots down other satellites and really high flying missiles. A ground based one that protects a ground based target from lower flying missles. Or a sky based one on a jet that protects large areas of sky....
Originally posted by 11 11
Some cameras have a setting that will mix the normal camera mode with infrared mode for better images in dark environments. It is not a "full night vision" it is just an infrared assist.
Modification of the aircraft, involving installation of the turret in the aircraft's nose and modifications to accept the laser, optics and computer hardware, was completed in May 2002.
In July 2002, the modified aircraft took the first of a series of test flights. After receiving airworthiness certification, the aircraft was flown to Edwards Air Force Base, California, in December 2002, for the installation of systems. The aircraft returned to airworthiness flight testing in December 2004 following installation of the beam control / fire control system.
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Sorry, but claiming that a laser beam shot that hole in the kevlar and bricks of the Pentagon is ludacris.
Are you really suggesting that these lasers would have such a powerful beam with 12 foot 'points' thru 'space'?? After traveling however far away, and concentrate enough power to do all of these things? Those beams are for shooting down artillery rounds and missles, not for blowing massives holes thru concrete and melting the entire sides of building etc.
Originally posted by Boone 870
pinner99, that was really funny!
Originally posted by Boone 870
It would be hard for the airborne laser to be shooting buildings on 9/11 2001 if it wasn't even flying yet.
Originally posted by pinner99
Come on now. I do not under stand how people can say that the U.S. did this.
Originally posted by 11 11
Come on, if you really think the US government is an innocent child that never lies, well then you need to wake up. We are lied to by the government on a daily basis. Heck the US government steals from their own citizens on a daily basis. Heck, the US government uses the civilians as SLAVES, so they can play with the big toys. How you can believe that the US did not do this is far beyond my comprehension.
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Originally posted by Boone 870
pinner99, I was being serious, I really did laugh. You may want to read my post again. I don't believe the airborne laser was used.