Wait? Did someone in the government decided on this after they watched the first season of Silicon Valley? Because that’s the only explanation I can think of.
iirc this has been in development for awhile. There was something similar in the Left Behind books (I read them before my Come to Jesus-Doesn't Exist moment) and I looked it up back then and found people talking about the development of Directed Energy Weapons being primarily aimed at Missile Defense and Less-than-Lethal Crowd Control applications.
Wait? Did someone in the government decided on this after they watched the first season of Silicon Valley? Because that’s the only explanation I can think of.
iirc this has been in development for awhile. There was something similar in the Left Behind books (I read them before my Come to Jesus-Doesn't Exist moment) and I looked it up back then and found people talking about the development of Directed Energy Weapons being primarily aimed at Missile Defense and Less-than-Lethal Crowd Control applications.