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Originally posted by robertfenix
However, there's more to the Air Force plan than keeping satellites safe. The Evolutionary Air and Space Global Laser Engagement, or EAGLE, project aims to put mirrors underneath an airship 25 times the size of the Goodyear blimp. In theory, lasers -- fired from the ground, from space, or from the air -- would bounce off these blimp-borne mirrors, to track or even destroy enemy missiles.
Incredible as it sounds, the EAGLE effort is underway at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy division, sources there confirm. Also under research at the lab is the Ground-Based Laser, which, according to the Air Force report, would shoot "laser beams through the atmosphere" to knock out enemy spacecraft in low-earth orbit.
airship 25 times the size of the Goodyear blimp
airship 25 times the size of the Goodyear blimp
airship 25 times the size of the Goodyear blimp
airship 25 times the size of the Goodyear blimp
airship 25 times the size of the Goodyear blimp
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I bet you anything that this "airship" is black and delta shapped.