In my view, a large part of the problem is that those who take up the "space-based DEW" cudgel have no idea what they are talking about. They pick up uninformed or ill-informed internet buzz and run with it. Contrary to the anon ethic...they do not conduct any research. If they had, they would discover that the history of this technology is at least a half-century old. That various experimental units and devices were involved in test programs. That the largest DEW of all time had been developed, built, tested successfully, and scrapped...all before 10 years ago. They would have learned about the big interest in space-based DEWs during the SDI years of the 1980s---and the realization that such systems were too huge, too complex, too expensive, and too limited to bother with further. And time has marched on as the Air force continues its love affair with shorter wavelengths. Some of these ideas may arise again (though they will still run into the same limitations as before). I'm waiting to see.
But the only informed attitude is one of calm and understanding where we are, not hyperventilation and imagining DEWs under our beds or in orbit.
I can't trace back to what you are responding to, but I have to point out that something being discontinued isn't false on account of you not liking the answer. You still have an obligation to offer proof of a smokescreen.
In my view, a large part of the problem is that those who take up the "space-based DEW" cudgel have no idea what they are talking about. They pick up uninformed or ill-informed internet buzz and run with it. Contrary to the anon ethic...they do not conduct any research. If they had, they would discover that the history of this technology is at least a half-century old. That various experimental units and devices were involved in test programs. That the largest DEW of all time had been developed, built, tested successfully, and scrapped...all before 10 years ago. They would have learned about the big interest in space-based DEWs during the SDI years of the 1980s---and the realization that such systems were too huge, too complex, too expensive, and too limited to bother with further. And time has marched on as the Air force continues its love affair with shorter wavelengths. Some of these ideas may arise again (though they will still run into the same limitations as before). I'm waiting to see.
But the only informed attitude is one of calm and understanding where we are, not hyperventilation and imagining DEWs under our beds or in orbit.
Things that were supposedly "discontinued" were not, though. Saying they were was a smokescreen to divert attention.
Note: ray is actually an expert who works in this field. But people love their clickbait narratives. So he gets downvoted.... hmmm...
I can't trace back to what you are responding to, but I have to point out that something being discontinued isn't false on account of you not liking the answer. You still have an obligation to offer proof of a smokescreen.