FAA Greenlights Laser Sentry Guns To Combat Attack Drones In U.S. Airspace [More]
As I wrote in “Things to Come” for Guns and Ammo back in 2002:
Designed for deployment on AC-X “Son of Specter” aircraft gunships, we’re told that “advances will be made and the power plant will shrink and one day it will dominate the battlefield.” Hardly a small arm suitable for individual combatants? Just remember, not so long ago your pocket calculator would have filled a room, requiring programmers, technicians and keypunch operators; and cell phones, laptops and GPS units would have been considered no more plausible than… um… paralyzer beams and death rays.
I wish I had a link to it but it’s not on the internet and they own the copyright.
And sorry, it’s not “in common use.”
[Via bondmen]
