| Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 1998 : 20 May 1998 |
You don't have to be as smart as a smart bomb to realize that if your ray gun in the sky can hit flying rockets, it should also be able to shoot down airplanes, blast one car in a motorcade, or burn one house in a city.
No doubt there are technical difficulties. But the Air Force doesn't mention these obvious military uses of their Airborne Laser plane.
And that brings up an interesting question: Are we there yet? Are the bombs smarter than the generals?
give me a clue so sweet and true
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