Originally Posted by
jmotivator
The objective of US military development is to make a war with the US as lopsided as possible and minimize the chance of US casualties in any future conflict. Any weapon development that increases our advantage should be pursued any that doesn't should not be. It's that simple. We shouldn't base development on competition against potential adversaries, we should base it on competition against our own current capabilities.
That said, the one technology that scares me the most is FEL. The destructive capability of that technology, even with only moderate achievement of expected potential, is chilling. Until FEL the laser technology was limited heavily by necessary medium to generate and focus a laser beam. With FEL there is no medium needed to generate and focus the beam so the power potential is greatly increased. We'll have lasers not only capable of cutting down a building in a single pass, but entire skylines.
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