Makes me think the space force has a laser..
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When I saw the ruler straight edges in some burned areas AND one playground where everything was vaporized but the plastic slide was untouched, I figured they were using DEWs, which don't melt plastic. Plus there were reports of beam of lights over some of the fire areas.
There was an Airborne Laser program. It produced an aircraft designated the YAL-1A (Boeing 747 with internal oxygen-iodine laser and nose pointing turret). It shot down a boosting ballistic missile target on 11 Feb 2010. And the Obama administration canceled the program and junked the system, having dispersed the design teams. It will take a long while to revisit that subject. (I edited the winning proposal for the program.)
Most of what you are talking about has been looked at in the '80s and passed over as being impractical. (Particle beams will wander in the Earth's magnetic field. Lasers can't hit the ground through clouds or smoke. Big tungsten rods are just a way to bore deep holes in the Earth. Satellite nuclear power is cool, we used to do it, but everyone got all nasty when some came out of orbit, so we are standing in a corner facing the wall.) Other stuff...we can't discuss.
We flew nuclear reactors on one or two satellites. The Russians flew it as a matter of course to power their radar surveillance satellites, but they had a few problems with on-orbit failures and a nasty de-orbit with junk all across Canada, so the taste for that became outworn.
Most of the energy technology is known, or openly discussed.