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Offline ABX

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Pentagon Confirms Chinese Fired Lasers at U.S. Pilots
« on: May 04, 2018, 12:54:47 am »
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The Pentagon confirmed Thursday that Chinese nationals fired lasers near a military base in east Africa against U.S. military aircraft in the region, injuring several pilots....

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-confirms-chinese-fired-lasers-u-s-pilots/




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Re: Pentagon Confirms Chinese Fired Lasers at U.S. Pilots
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2018, 01:33:02 am »
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,314655.0.html

Really, what's up with this? What is its significance?

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Re: Pentagon Confirms Chinese Fired Lasers at U.S. Pilots
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2018, 03:08:48 am »
Rather than starting another thread, from the Hill:

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Overnight Defense: Pentagon warns China after lasers injure US pilots

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The United States has issued a formal warning to China after personnel at the Chinese military base in Djibouti used lasers to interfere with U.S. military aircraft, giving two pilots minor injuries, according to the Pentagon.

Top Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White told reporters Thursday that the U.S. is confident the Chinese are behind the "very serious incidents," which have increased in the past few weeks. 

What exactly happened: White said there have been "more than two [and] less than 10" such instances where the Chinese used a high-power laser to disrupt pilots. The incidents have happened in the past but they have picked up in the past few weeks.

Read more at: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/overnights/386154-overnight-defense-pentagon-warns-china-after-lasers-injure-us

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Re: Pentagon Confirms Chinese Fired Lasers at U.S. Pilots
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2018, 03:10:25 am »
We'd better develop a defense against this quickly.

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Re: Pentagon Confirms Chinese Fired Lasers at U.S. Pilots
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2018, 03:13:26 am »
We'd better develop a defense against this quickly.

We already have one.

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty and fart proudly.  - Benjamin Franklin

...Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour." - John Adams, February 6, 1775

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Re: Pentagon Confirms Chinese Fired Lasers at U.S. Pilots
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2018, 03:31:00 am »
We'd better develop a defense against this quickly.

A mirror?