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Following an initial inquiry from The Chronicle this summer, the Air Force forbade its employees from publicly discussing the antimatter research program. Still, details on the program appear in numerous Air Force documents distributed over the Internet prior to the ban.
These include an outline of a March 2004 speech by an Air Force official who, in effect, spilled the beans about the Air Force's high hopes for antimatter weapons. On March 24, Kenneth Edwards, director of the "revolutionary munitions" team at the Munitions Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida was keynote speaker at the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) conference in Arlington, Va.
originally posted by: grey580
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Man this rabbit hole is deep.
Following an initial inquiry from The Chronicle this summer, the Air Force forbade its employees from publicly discussing the antimatter research program. Still, details on the program appear in numerous Air Force documents distributed over the Internet prior to the ban.
These include an outline of a March 2004 speech by an Air Force official who, in effect, spilled the beans about the Air Force's high hopes for antimatter weapons. On March 24, Kenneth Edwards, director of the "revolutionary munitions" team at the Munitions Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida was keynote speaker at the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) conference in Arlington, Va.
I'm reminded of the UFO hunters at the Utah test range in 2004 that took pictures of what looked to be a ground-to-space directed energy beam... They and their film had some indication of being exposed to X-rays.
originally posted by: BASSPLYR
So use new device to create small (or large) amounts of antimatter on the spot. Get some gamma rays going and coat inside of reactor with new nanosolarcells and convert very efficiently to a boatload of electricity. That might power your drone...or sport model. Could even be run on batteries and be small yet very powerful.