"will transform the battlespace and save lives by giving warfighters a speed-of-light, ultra-precision engagement capability that will dramatically reduce collateral damage"<p>It's language like that that I really can't stand. So, you're making a new high energy weapon and you claim that it will save lives ? That depends on the side of the weapon that you are on I guess.<p>Collateral damage as it is so nicely called is one of the weirdest terms.<p>Why are we so scared to name it with a more descriptive term, such as innocent civilians, or even better children, women and men that happened to be in the wrong place.<p>This weapon 'minimizes' such damage, or so they claim but all I see is another way of killing people. If the idea is that it minimizes them as compared to other weaponry then how about a suggestion to not use that stuff at all if it can be avoided, instead of funding ever more ways to murder people ?<p>The quality of a weapon is as good as the intelligence that guides it, not the precision of the weapon itself, that is only a very small factor.