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2026-03-06 Science & Technology

Israel Debuts "Iron Beam" 100kW Laser Weapon During Iran War

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Posted by Woodrow 2026-03-06 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1843 views ] Top
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1 I'll stand with Jews anytime .

Posted by chris 2026-03-06 01:25|| 2026-03-06 01:25|| Front Page Top

2 The early christens were Jewish.

Those nations that welcomes and bless the jews will themself be blessed by god.

The Jews is part an particle of the christian faith!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2026-03-06 02:11|| 2026-03-06 02:11|| Front Page Top

3 Christians dang it!

I sometime hate this stupid audocorret!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2026-03-06 04:14|| 2026-03-06 04:14|| Front Page Top

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Having owned an Alibaba purchased 1mW blue laser set that would start paper on fire at a few feet, but did not work out as a rifle laser pointer. I am thinking of the fun just a mere 10KW would bring.

SIDE NOTE:
As we know, Jesus and his disciples were all Jewish.
All practiced Judaism to their last days on earth.
It is his teachings and their written accounts we follow as Christians.
That is why we are many times said to be Judeo-Christians.

But, with that said, it was also the Jewish Elite & Rabbi's that had Jesus crucified.

Posted by NN2N1 2026-03-06 04:51|| 2026-03-06 04:51|| Front Page Top

5 they didn't want to lose their positions of power. Humans seem to keep making that mistake.

Posted by chris 2026-03-06 05:28|| 2026-03-06 05:28|| Front Page Top

6 I think the Iron Beam is only being used in the Hezbollah theater for now

Posted by Lord Garth 2026-03-06 10:59|| 2026-03-06 10:59|| Front Page Top

7 Garth

Iron Beam, officially Laser Dome in English and Strong Light (Hebrew: אור איתן) in Hebrew,[1] is a directed-energy air defense system developed by Israeli defense contractor Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.[2] It was unveiled at the Singapore Airshow on 11 February 2014.[3]

The system is designed to destroy short-range rockets, artillery, and mortar bombs

Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-03-06 11:58|| 2026-03-06 11:58|| Front Page Top

8 I incorrectly read the headline as 100KW Ion Beam, which would be something! Not that a 100KW laser is anything to sneeze at. I wonder what they use as a mount. The beam would not necessarily be a static beam, but might be a 'rasterized' beam. Just speculating.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2026-03-06 12:39|| 2026-03-06 12:39|| Front Page Top

9 it was also the Jewish Elite & Rabbi's that had Jesus crucified.

Had they not, there would be no Christianity, from the Christian perspective.

But it was Jesus’s own words and actions that drove them to it, as described in the Gospels. The Sanhedrin was only a religious power. They were protecting their people and doing their sworn civic duty by handing him over to the secular ruler, the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate, who is the one who tried him for treason under Roman law and ordered him crucified. Jesus’ claim to be the Messiah was not just heretical, it was treason against Roman rule, and would have led to a bloody revolt and bloodier suppression by the Romans had he continued.

Exactly that happened after the first Jewish revolt (67-70 AD), which resulted in the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, and the third Jewish revolt (132-136 AD), also called the Bar Kochba Revolt after its leader — who also claimed to be the Messiah, the earthly king of the revived Jewish kingdom and did the usual kingly things: judging, issuing coinage, and leading an army to drive out the Romans. By the time Galilee and Judaea were pacified the second time, the land was practically depopulated: 2/3rds of the Jewish population was dead and almost all the rest sold into slavery or exiled; and beyond the Jewish provinces, Jews throughout the Roman empire were persecuted and forbidden Jewish practices.

So, NN2N1, were you a member of the Jewish elite in Jerusalem then, knowing what the Roman rulers were, and firmly believing that Jesus could not possibly be the Messiah according to Jewish law and prophesy, what would you have done when presented with that scenario? Because it’s clear from the Gospels that while Jesus may have talked about ruling in Heaven, even after he died on the cross his Jewish followers expected him to return momentarily to rule in the earthly Jerusalem.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-03-06 12:56|| 2026-03-06 12:56|| Front Page Top

10 I wonder if Space Force has something similar?

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2026-03-06 20:26|| 2026-03-06 20:26|| Front Page Top

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