[gary]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

weapons of mass photon destruction

Exactly. I see where you are coming from

Combined with a good laser collimator, it might provide similar capability to what
the Chinese were alleged to have tested on the U.S. reconnaissance
Keyhole satellites.

See http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002794.html

(Visions of cruise missile equipped guided missile destroyers now standing-by
off the Newcastle coast as we speak.)