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To: bentway who wrote (800733)8/10/2014 1:58:46 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1579988
 
Taking this into account, what the Pals are doing doesn't seem quite so stupid:

They might have overstated the cost differential. And we are paying for the rockets right now.

Regardless, there is a couple of orders of magnitude difference in cost.

Their only hope is lasers. Which we started to field this year. We were working on a system about 10 years ago and it worked well. But, it was a chemical laser and those things are nasty and expensive.