I have spent the last few weeks chatting with several directed energy professionals and learned a new phrase I had never heard before:

"Laser liar" (noun): a journalist, usually well-intentioned but blinded by sci-fi wonder, who has no fucking idea what they're talking about

Deltron 3030 - 3030 YouTube video by tabascomoe

Once I hit 3030 I'm hanging up my hat www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7_j...

Woke up to a pleasant surprise!

laserwars.net

ONE NATION UNDER THE DOME
www.laserwars.net/p/us-militar...

This link is dead but the headline will live forever in my brain

Sometimes I look at my @taskandpurpose.com archive and am SHOCKED at the shit I got away with publishing

I really appreciate your honesty, and NEVER apologize to me for anything!

Totally understandable!

CAN I GET A HELL YEAH?

This might be the most unhinged morale patch I've ever seen

A U.S. sailor conducts routine maintenance in the hangar bay of the USS Gerald R. Ford while underway in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea on March 22, 2026 www.dvidshub.net/image/959549...

NEW: A preliminary analysis indicates the US Defense Department wants to pour more than $2 billion into research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E) programs involving high-energy laser weapons and other directed energy systems in fiscal year 2027 www.laserwars.net/p/defense-de...

Lol you're asking the wrong guy but I experienced it once recently and I'm still high from it bsky.app/profile/lase...

Honestly all it takes is one GREAT piece of fan mail to make up for thousands of hate letters

HABEMUS MAGUS

UM tell me more?

RIP Laser Stryker, you were doomed from the start

Inside of me is a 10-year-old boy who never gave up his sci-fi obsession (although my favorite directed energy weapon comes from Farscape so now I know I REALLY have a problem)

All men of a certain age develop insane hobbies. Some get into brown liquor or grilling, others get into WWII biographies ... I got into lasers

Two of my favorite things!!!

Publishing tomorrow...

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Tired: "We sacrificed so much expensive military equipment to rescue one man!"

Wired:

The Navy Brought a ‘One-of-a-Kind’ Laser Weapon Back From the Dead The US Navy's lone 150 kilowatt laser weapon is back in action – sort of.

In retrospect I should have held this story until today www.laserwars.net/p/navy-solid...

All I want, more than anything else in the world, is for the Pentagon to release a photo of that WSO getting hauled out of danger by a helicopter so I can add "HE IS RISEN" to it

JUST IN: The Pentagon Wants to More Than Double Its Directed Energy R&D Budget The directed energy and high-energy laser weapon R&D line items in the US Defense Department's fiscal year ... JUST IN: The Pentagon Wants to More Than Double Its Directed Energy R&D Budget The directed energy and high-energy laser weapon R&D line items in the US Defense Department's fiscal year 2027 budget ...

via @laserwars.net, the Pentagon wants to double its R&D budget for lasers and other "directed energy weapons"

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Find someone who looks at you the way I look at the directed energy line items in the Pentagon's annual budget request on a Friday night

OK, I'll bite: what is a "Good Friday"?

Careful I might!

Would it be crazy if I launched a subsection of Laser Wars called 'Infinite Magazine' for outside contributors on futuristic defense tech?

Now would be a good time for someone to interview Scott O'Grady

I just realized that I have been writing about military affairs and defense tech for nearly a decade, longer than I've focused on any other topic ever. Funny how life works!