{"id":4113,"date":"2007-11-12T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2017-11-24T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:00:23","slug":"because-theres-no-defense-like-a-good-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/because-theres-no-defense-like-a-good-offense\/","title":{"rendered":"Because There&#8217;s No Defense Like A Good Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Crossbow Project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theengineer.co.uk\/liChannelID\/10\/Articles\/302587\/Laser+joins+anti-ballistic+arsenal.htm\" target=\"_new\">lives<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The world&#8217;s most powerful airborne laser capable of shooting down a ballistic missile is being re-assembled by Northrop Grumman and the US Missile Defence [sic] Agency (MDA).<\/p>\n<p>The laser is being integrated onto MDA&#8217;s Airborne Laser (ABL). High-power system testing will follow completion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As they said at <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/246262.php\" target=\"_new\">Ace of Spades<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you can burn down an incoming missile, you ought to be able to burn down some miscreant 50 miles away too, right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And make a lot of popcorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crossbow Project lives: The world&#8217;s most powerful airborne laser capable of shooting down a ballistic missile is being re-assembled by Northrop Grumman and the US Missile Defence [sic] Agency (MDA). The laser is being integrated onto MDA&#8217;s Airborne Laser (ABL). High-power system testing will follow completion. As they said at Ace of Spades: If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17750,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions\/17750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}