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<blockquote data-quote="Foxfire5" data-source="post: 3828372" data-attributes="member: 50971"><p>Not to Worry. Back in the early 1950's I helped to ferry hydrogen bombs. Later in the fifties I began my career as an Ironworker and helped to build the DEW system in Thule Greenland. The Radar towers we built were obsolete before we finished building them. At the time there was a signal beam aimed into the center of the special steel lined tower that if the Russians lit up a rocket on a launch pad we detected and fired a beam at the center and the signal reached Omaha Nebraska in 2-1/2 seconds. Imagine the technology now sixty years later. My brother, retired military, who's job at the time was to help train other Airmen to operate and detect Russian launched missiles using the DEW system. In Vietnam it was laser guided missile training. He was sworn to secrecy in his civilian government job about his/their work on Hypersonic and Laser weapons. My brother passed away in 2017 and is sorely missed... The only thing he said to me a year earlier was the military had a Hypersonic weapon that reached 15,000 mph and laser's that could take down a plane or missiles in milli seconds. Really thought he was full of it. I was wrong. So again not to worry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Foxfire5, post: 3828372, member: 50971"] Not to Worry. Back in the early 1950's I helped to ferry hydrogen bombs. Later in the fifties I began my career as an Ironworker and helped to build the DEW system in Thule Greenland. The Radar towers we built were obsolete before we finished building them. At the time there was a signal beam aimed into the center of the special steel lined tower that if the Russians lit up a rocket on a launch pad we detected and fired a beam at the center and the signal reached Omaha Nebraska in 2-1/2 seconds. Imagine the technology now sixty years later. My brother, retired military, who's job at the time was to help train other Airmen to operate and detect Russian launched missiles using the DEW system. In Vietnam it was laser guided missile training. He was sworn to secrecy in his civilian government job about his/their work on Hypersonic and Laser weapons. My brother passed away in 2017 and is sorely missed... The only thing he said to me a year earlier was the military had a Hypersonic weapon that reached 15,000 mph and laser's that could take down a plane or missiles in milli seconds. Really thought he was full of it. I was wrong. So again not to worry. [/QUOTE]
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