Future USAF fighters will hack and zap

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eyebiter

September 18, 2015, 11:23:58 PM
Air Force fighters will carry laser cannons, cyber weapons by 2020
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/air-force-fighters-will-carry-laser-cannons-cyber-weapons-by-2020/

Generals see laser pods, software-configurable bombs, and "operational cyber" in near future.

"Sometime very soon, combat aircraft may be zapping threats out of the sky with laser weapons. "I believe we'll have a directed energy pod we can put on a fighter plane very soon," Air Force General Hawk Carlisle said at this week's Air Force Association Air & Space conference in a presentation on what he called Fifth-Generation Warfare. "That day is a lot closer than I think a lot of people think it is."

besilarius

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September 19, 2015, 02:36:26 PM
Undoubtedly this will happen in time.
However, it sounds a lot like what the generals and admirals said about cannons.  Before Vietnam the F4 was designed without any guns because they were superfluous.
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Echoblammo

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October 13, 2015, 06:37:17 AM
General Hawk, lol.

From G.I Joe. Ha ha.

*sigh*

I guess lasers are cool too.
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