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Vladimir Putin claims that Russia has a laser weapon that can blind satellites and burn holes in them in five seconds.

  Image 1) The fact is that these kinds of claims and speculations have introduced in the Soviet era. At that time. There were rumors that the Soviets have massive laser stations near Moscow. And the DOD artwork introduced speculations. About what this type of laser station might look like.  There were a couple of incidents where the Soviets targeted satellites by using lasers for covering their secrets. The satellites were not blinded completely and the laser ray just disturbed the photo-recon satellites. The things like CCD cameras and computer-aided photography decrease laser rays' effect. The CCD camera sends images to the computer by using all pixel groups separately.  And all pixel groups are sensitive to a certain wavelength of light. So the system connects the image by using multiple separate images. And the computer can remove the wavelengths of the laser rays. The weakness of the laser ray is it has only one wavelength. And the system can remove the frequency of those las

Flying wings are coming.

Computer-Generated Image of China's Xian H-20 Stealth Bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons. Chinese H-20 and the USAF B-21 stealth bombers are both flying wings. The flying wing design makes those aircraft more economical. And they can carry more payload. Also, the economical flight makes them fly longer time before refueling. And along with stealth technology that makes those bombers very capable for global operations.  The thing is that those aircraft can be very fast because they are aerodynamically very capable. Their shape is smooth. And the curves are soft. That allows the radio waves from the radars to slide over their body without causing an echo. The same way that shape makes air molecules travel over the bodies of those aircraft.  There is the possibility that the magnetic field around those aircraft is boosting the stealth capacity of those super bombers. The magnetic stealth system acts as the Earth's magnetic field and pushes the radio waves away from the aircraf

Iconic A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" still rules.

The top image: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (Wikipedia/Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II) The old-fashion A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" is still capable of its mission. The iconic tank buster tested its primary weapon the massive 30 mm. GAU-8 "Avenger" rotation cannon against the modern reactive armor. And the aircraft was still capable to use its cannon against the most modern armored vehicles.  The reason why GAU-8 is so capable is that the cannon shoots multiple grenades and depleted uranium penetrators against the reactive body armor. Even if those explosive bricks can destroy a couple of grenades before they hit the body of the tank the burst of the grenades removes or explodes a large number of explosive bricks from the tank. And sooner or later those hits will strip the explosive bricks away from the tank.  The "Hellfire" and larger-size "Maverick" missiles would be very effective against any tank in the world. The Hellfires