Israel deployed the first Iron Beam systems on Sunday, to complement its Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow multi-layered defense architecture.

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    19 days ago

    However the power requirements make them impractical for offensive applications and they can’t do much damage against concrete and the like, so there’s not much risk of harm if they were to become commonplace.

    • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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      18 days ago

      Depends on the nature of the offensive application. I expect we’ll see them used for a mass blinding terror attack in my lifetime.