Book Bombardment 3

---The E-Bomb--- Doug Beason

Directed Energy Weapons. DEW. Yup. Lasers and all that. Doug Beason is a 'Director of Threat Reduction' at Los Alamos National Lab. He is a strong supporter of many of the projects discussed in the book. Including the AirBorne Laser and the Active Denial System . I am not a laser scientist, but I can't see how any chemical laser like the ABL or the MTHEL could possibly be made 'battle hardened'. They just seem a really inefficient and huge. I know they are still in development, but still. Cycle time and laser fuel is a serious issue too. Who knows. I hope they are never used, and hope they are never needed. Keep the beam weapons in Gundam.