The guy is just getting famous and is always wrong. Please pin this.
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I have to agree. My professional specialty included the design and analysis of space-based weapons and directed-energy weapons. I had occasion to listen to one of Simon Parks' videos in which he confirmed to his audience that a satellite-based laser weapon had been used in the Nashville bombing event. This was just absurdly false. No such weapons have been in actual development for space, because the system requirements are too severe for economy and practicality. Nor would they have been very useful against ground targets for reasons of target obscuration by clouds or smoke, and target unavailability by reason of orbital mechanics. They are best used against aerial targets above the tropopause or space targets.
Anyway, whoever Parks is listening to is feeding him bullshit and he is incapable of discerning it---which impeaches anything he might relate. I have no confidence in him.
O rly? Tell me about Konnie Konniption and the tables of Parkhomov if you are a DEW expert. Or Ball lightning at Sochi?
I met Aleksandr Prokhorov once. I was friends with the late Lt. Col. George Williams (USAF). I'm acquainted with Lt. Col Roger Lenard (USAF ret.). If you know anything about lasers and space weapons, you would know them. I'm not interested in drivel.