Re: Laser as Reactionless Propulsion

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Thu Apr 22 1999 - 22:36:33 MDT


Michael S. Lorrey wrote:

> ...b) There is a new power source that one of the Russian Institutes just
> sold to the US military which uses a small charge of conventional
> explosives to generate 1 megawatt for a tiny fraction of a second. They
> are evaluating it now for space defense weapons use. Don't know the
> technology behind it.
>
> Spike? Any ideas?

None that I am willing to talk about, even if I did know, which I
am not claiming to. {8^D Gotta hand it to those commies, they are
pretty clever with their shape charges, are they not? spike



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