{"id":190961,"date":"2009-10-11T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/11\/well-that-trashed-a-paint-job\/"},"modified":"2009-10-11T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T20:51:00","slug":"well-that-trashed-a-paint-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/11\/well-that-trashed-a-paint-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, That Trashed a Paint Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What you see below is a video of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2009\/10\/video-laser-gunship-blowtorches-truck\/\">the <span>USAF&#8217;s<\/span> Advanced Tactical Laser doing its thing on a pick up truck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t see a whole bunch of utility here.  It&#8217;s a chemical laser, which means an extensive, expensive, and environmentally hazardous logistical tail, and things like sheet metal on trucks are much easier to heat that people, which have a lot of water in them, so it, &#8220;as a way to target individual insurgents,&#8221; seems to me to be somewhat dubious.<\/p>\n<p>The advances in <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=lasers\">electrically powered lasers<\/a>, particularly against things like mortars and <span>Kyatusha<\/span> rockets<embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/1813626064?isVid=1&amp;publisherID=1564549380\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashvars=\"videoId=43139419001&amp;playerID=1813626064&amp;domain=embed&amp;\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" width=\"404\" height=\"436\"><\/embed>In any case, here is bonus Bond video, with the best Bond line ever<sup>\u2122<\/sup>, from Mr. <span>Goldfinger<\/span>, not Sean Connery, &#8220;No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7wyp909mQPM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7wyp909mQPM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you see below is a video of the USAF&#8217;s Advanced Tactical Laser doing its thing on a pick up truck. I really don&#8217;t see a whole bunch of utility here. It&#8217;s a chemical laser, which means an extensive, expensive, and environmentally hazardous logistical tail, and things like sheet metal on trucks are much easier &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,1025,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-technology","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}