Comments on: Directed Energy (DE) already plays important military roles in counter-air defense, target identification, tracking, counter intelligence search & reconnaissance (ISR), and electronic warfare (EW) https://www.isegoria.net/2023/02/directed-energy-de-already-plays-important-military-roles-in-counter-air-defense-target-identification-tracking-counter-intelligence-search-reconnaissance-isr-and-electronic-warfare-ew/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Gavin Longmuir https://www.isegoria.net/2023/02/directed-energy-de-already-plays-important-military-roles-in-counter-air-defense-target-identification-tracking-counter-intelligence-search-reconnaissance-isr-and-electronic-warfare-ew/comment-page-1/#comment-3589479 Gavin Longmuir Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:42:22 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49690#comment-3589479 “By 2060 a sufficiently large fleet or constellation of high-altitude DEW systems could provide a missile defense umbrella”

High altitude constellation, presumably with a long residence time at high altitude. The man is talking balloons!

It is a pity that the US is suffering from such a “Balloon Gap” with China. Need to get Hunter Biden onto stealing/buying some Chinese technology. Maybe he could start with Fang Fang?

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