The newest high-energy laser weapons are way cool and they are available for ground based units or mobile ground based units like the THEL or even Airborne Units which are mounted in a 747 Jumbo Jet. Sounds like Star Wars or Battle Star Galactica, indeed and it is exactly like that.

Now there is a new program to build one of these units, which is about the size of a refrigerator. This means we can build small High Energy Laser Units, which can be put into a fighter jet and used as the aircraft flies, just like the X-Wing Fighters attacking Darth Vaders Death Star.

I propose we build these units and put them into UAVs or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Why do that you ask? Well if you are going to fight a nation they will have heavy air defenses and it does not makes sense to risk human pilots on the first wave as you work to take out major SAMs or Surface to Air Missile Sites.

Stealth high-energy laser UAVs can be used with weapons on top. When they are ready to fire they invert and fly upside down for a few seconds and then turn back over to become stealthy again. We can send these units in to attack and then use them to take out major infrastructure like railroads. Railroad tracks can easily be seen from above and would not need any Satellite guidance to help locate targets.

These units could be fully autonomous and raise havoc taking out all straight lines which are unnatural to the landscape; that is to say railroad tracks, large buildings, dams and major roads. Consider this in 2006.