According to The Register, in a typically tongue-in-cheek article: American aerospace colossus Northrop Grumman has called for the US air force to purchase a hundred-strong fleet of enormous aerial stealth raiders, able to direct “netted wolfpacks” of flying kill-robots and packing “cyber warfare tools” capable of “attacking enemy information nodes”. The proposed Next Generation Long Range System (NGLRS) cyberbomber is also, of course, thought likely to mount some kind of raygun. As a young military aerospace engineer, I recall arguing […]

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