A US military high-energy laser weapon has finally achieved a publicly confirmed drone kill — and it was a case of friendly fire Here's what that means www.laserwars.net/p/us-militar...

I love that I can just email the US Navy with laser questions and they respond affirmatively. You can just do things!

I take time off for the first time in a year and everything decided to go to shit, huh

Another benefit of subscribing to Laser Wars: be light years ahead of @theatlantic.com www.laserwars.net/p/project-de... laserwars.net

I can’t read “looksmaxxing” and “height-mogged” without thinking of those nefarious droogs from ‘A Clockwork Orange’ out for a bit of the old ultra-violence

I can’t read “looksmaxxing” and “height-mogged” without thinking of those nefarious droogs from ‘A Clockwork Orange’ out for a bit of the old ultra-violence

LASER WEAPONS AREN'T FUCKING MAGIC, PEOPLE www.laserwars.net/p/laser-weap...

Still one of the best decisions I've ever made (also I miss Pacific Standard)

LASER WEAPONS AREN'T FUCKING MAGIC, PEOPLE www.laserwars.net/p/laser-weap...

I recently received “The Bomber Mafia” as a birthday gift (heh). It was bad, so bad that I believe it cannot be read as a reliable account of strategic bombing in World War II. In so many ways, it demonstrates the worst tendencies of the “pop history” genre. My review (and latest)⬇️

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Ukraine purportedly has a new laser weapon, 'Sunray.' Why does the @theatlantic.com story revealing it to the world make no mention of maximum power output or effective range — details the Ukrainian military shared freely for its Tryzub and Slim Beam systems? www.laserwars.net/p/sunray-wha...

I am running out of laser blogs

One of my favorite @taskandpurpose.com bits was trawling through DVIDS in search of tank names and then blogging about them taskandpurpose.com/culture/army... The media industry is the worst but it can also be super fun!

I've seen some inscrutable tank names in my years but this one takes the cake

Why did they call it “S Club 7” and not “S Corp 7”? (Is this anything?)

Watching the new season of ‘Shrinking’ and my old middle school English teacher is apparently a producer?

Why did they call it “S Club 7” and not “S Corp 7”? (Is this anything?)

The @nytimes.com has a good timeline of this week's Hassle Above El Paso www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Live footage of me trawling through DVIDS in search of art for upcoming editions of Laser Wars:

Right: Laser Wars, six months ago Left: @reuters.com, today Subscribe: laserwars.net

Live footage of me trawling through DVIDS in search of art for upcoming editions of Laser Wars:

Please tell me that I don't have to start making vertical talking head videos ever. Please.

Right: Laser Wars, six months ago Left: @reuters.com, today Subscribe: laserwars.net

Just a reminder that a US Army vehicle sporting a laser turret was photographed training with soldiers assigned to the US-Mexico border in late July www.laserwars.net/p/us-army-la...

I have TOO many thoughts about this story www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Every time I see "Clavicular" I read it like "pop-U-lar" from 'Wicked,' which I have not seen

👀 A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft provides close air support to the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara during a training exercise in the Arabian Gulf on Feb. 2, 2026 www.dvidshub.net/image/951221...

Some men get into grilling delicious meats as they age Other get into World War II biographies Me? I got into trawling DVIDS for glimpses of US military laser weapons and then using them to illustrate my incredible thoughts www.laserwars.net/p/navy-helio...

This vision of the Internet's AI-driven future from @ianbetteridge.com remains undefeated www.ianbetteridge.com/the-informat...

👀 A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft provides close air support to the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara during a training exercise in the Arabian Gulf on Feb. 2, 2026 www.dvidshub.net/image/951221...

Jeff D'Onofrio has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

Just a reminder that a defense contractor once designed a massive nuclear-powered spaceplane to enable the US Air Force to deliver nukes on targets anywhere in the world books.google.com/books?id=MxX...

If every "mainstream" media outlet dies, then who will social media influencers have left to aggregate other than each other?

Evergreen

Just a reminder that this is the future of warfare

Facebook’s only good feature is Memories

My late grandfather, a renowned historian of American bureaucracy (seriously, America's Three Regimes explains so much about our current political moment), had a favorite joke about his storied career in academia: - BS - Bull Shit - MS - More of the Same - PHD - Piled Higher and Deeper

My late grandfather, a renowned historian of American bureaucracy (seriously, America's Three Regimes explains so much about our current political moment), had a favorite joke about his storied career in academia: - BS - Bull Shit - MS - More of the Same - PHD - Piled Higher and Deeper

The slow death of American middle class, in one @jeffstein.bsky.social tweet

The slow death of American middle class, in one @jeffstein.bsky.social tweet

There are too many terrible AI-written defense Substacks in the world. This is NOT one of them.

I only ever had one byline at @washingtonpost.com, but it remains one of the pieces I'm most proud of Really sad to see what's happening there www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019...

What a difference eight years makes

Anyone got a subscription to AviationWeek and want to hook a brother up? 👀

smdh