Future Wars Will Be Conducted From Space (Maybe)

The Night Sky In December: A New Cold War Waged Not On Earth, But In Space -- The Telegraph

A war not with nuclear-tipped missiles but with destructive laser beams, travelling at the speed of light and reaching their targets 50,000 times faster than today’s missiles.



A new cold war seems certain to start within the next few decades, waged not on Earth, but in space.



It would be carried on, not with nuclear-tipped missiles as before, but with destructive laser beams. These, travelling at the speed of light, 670 million mph, would reach their targets 50,000 times faster than today’s missiles.



They could reach Earth from a point as far away as the Moon one and a quarter seconds after they had been fired.



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My Comment: Aside the fact that this is still science fiction .... even if developments in engineering and technology make this feasible, the economics of it will bankrupt any country that tries to develop and deploy these weapon platforms.