Re: Slow planes was: Battle blimps

At 4:57 PM -0400 4/18/02, Roger Books wrote:
>
>You don't think the big laser they are proposing for knocking
>down intermediate range missiles would take down an airplane?
>They are mounting the thing in a big jet.

I don't see the laser being something usable for the next 40 years on 
a light platform like a blimp. However, as an AEW platform, a blimp 
all the way up to a rigid airship will have an extremely valuable 
performance envelope with regards to station time over a given task 
group.
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