Tuesday, January 26, 2010

US Airborne Laser Weapon Test Vid Released



Via The Dew Line

Actually, the laser cannon won't just be airborne.  There'll very soon be a Boeing-Oshkosh vehicle carrying the laser.  Makes the Scud launcher look like a Medieval catapult.

Speaking of Dew Lines, below is one of my favorite pix from inside a tent at Cambridge Bay, 1958, basically the very beginning of NORAD... my Dad's the guy on the right, ex-Coast Guard, ex-Air Force at the time.  Boy, weren't those the days, eh?  The Fifties.  Cold War.  Watching out for Evil Empire Tu-95 Bears (the bastards still come close today and require better-safe-than-sorry interception!)...

Kind of looks like a scene from MASH, doesn't it?



Below:  At the CAM-3 Substation.  Dad's on the right again.

3 comments:

glasnost said...

A Lemon Hart man; good taste.

Canadian Sentinel said...

Yep. I actually went looking for that rum at the NBLC store, found it and now like it.

Canadian Sentinel said...

It really ought to become a TV series. A Canadian one, too...

Can't help but think about that...