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After Hawaii and LA coming out...

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Take a deep look into the fires.

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Let's see: We (as civilians) can't fight our way out of a paper bag, so we hire it out to some asshole in an expensive suit or military costume. Speaking of assholes. > The "Royal" Canadian Air Force. The United States Marine Corps. The United States Army. The United States Navy. The National Guard. The Department of Defense. The Central Intelligence Agency. The Federal Bureau of Investigation. The United States Department of Homeland Security. The National Security Agency, etc.

When this doesn't assuage our "security" paranoia, we hire other payable reinforcements: Airbus Space & Defense, BAE Systems, The Boeing Company, General Dynamics Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Technologies Corporation, and other significant para-military contractors like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_defense_contractors

There are tens of millions of persons fully employed in "protection" services...

Well, paranoia still waxes supreme, so we then hire more protectors of our fragile health and welfare. > The Department of Health and Human Services. The United States Food and Drug Administration. The Environmental "Protection" Agency... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The National Institutes of Health. Of course the list goes on, but I'm still not feeling very secure. How about you?

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Jesus, John, thank you so much for this information.

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Seemingly, it is primarily a defensive weapon because if it is true that the CCP can sink a US ship 1,000 miles offshore with a single mobile missile than so much for the DEW system on board ship. Unless the DEW can pick off 3,000 missiles fired at it simultaneously from offshore and assuming its not cloudy or rainy I guess.

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Always good to know what they're owning up to. Curious why they paint in the color / light lines in for the lasers, since, as they've gleefully told us they're invisible weapons. "You can't see them!" https://youtu.be/48QPwrTRfAI?si=5BgMtGcs2eyyrLPj&t=60

Look, here's a whole dedicated page on "DEW" on Lockheed Martin's website: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/capabilities/directed-energy.html

And the video they embed is from Sept 2020: https://youtu.be/rLav0zMHut8

And they proudly say "Decades of DE Experience"

"Our 21st Century Security® solutions leverage our decades of experience maturing all elements of directed energy systems, including high energy lasers, beam control, adaptive optics, beam directors and thermal management systems."

Note the ® on 21st Century Security, lol.

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