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		While trying to find a different news item i rlocated this 
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		Our first mass-produced energy weapon... 
 
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		I want to meet the poor buggers in the DARPA acronym department. There's that and   MAHEM. They work so hard at contrived acronyms there, the poor lambs.  
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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		Look at the tonnage on that thing... only 0.00075kT! Someone over at Malfador needs to look into miniaturization technology!    
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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 OT in an OT thread... It irritates me recently that medical studies are doing this too.  I can't think of a good one off the top of my head, but various drug companies are doing trials like STAR and PROTEC and others to make them "catchy" so that if they pan out, they have a good name to refer to when they try to corner the market in hypertension (or whatever).  Of course, if it busts, you never hear about it    
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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		What I do know is that when this country releases some 'Top Secret' craft, weapon or project, they generally have something better that they are working on! 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
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 Try Carrier Battles mod for intense missile interceptor action.
 
P&N mod allows the really large fighters to carry stock-like PD weapons too.
 http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/MM/SE4/Mods/ 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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		But how practical would this weapon be in conditions such as a cloud bank? 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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		So if an enemy fighter is attacking with lasers, it would be good to fly into a cloud. 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
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