Did the US pay the Wagner mercenary group over 6 billion dollars?
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Really, did you work on this COIL? WOW now I understand why you're so full of yourself. You must be proud eh? What an achievement.... look you know already where to put your laser.... Why you can't point it to the moon and watch for yourself what will happen?
I was mainly working on what came before COIL, the quasi-continuous wave carbon monoxide electric discharge laser (CO-EDL). It was figured to have about 40% quantum efficiency, a number that I have not seen surpassed. But COIL operated at a shorter wavelength, and the Air Force was in love with shorter wavelengths. Now they are working with solid-state lasers. (Kind of like going full circle, considering the first lasers were ruby rods.)
Mainly, I am proud of the fact that my re-editing of the proposal won Boeing a $1billion development contract. We had a guaranteed loser before it was turned over to me.
After the system successfully shot down a boosting ballistic missile in flight in 2010, President Obama canceled the program and scrapped it. So, even if I wanted to point it at the Moon (why? nothing would happen), it is not there to do the job. It would have been a handy counter to the North Korean missile launches.