{"id":23000,"date":"2016-03-01T22:47:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T06:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/very-close-pentagons-death-laser-right-around-the-corner"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:08:07","slug":"very-close-pentagons-death-laser-right-around-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/very-close-pentagons-death-laser-right-around-the-corner","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very Close\u2019: Pentagon\u2019s Death Laser Right Around the Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/very-close-pentagons-death-laser-right-around-the-corner.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new laser tag coming our way; however, this time when you\u2019re tagged, you really are dead.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>US officials tout the \u2018unprecedented power\u2019 of killing lasers to be released by 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The US Army will deploy its first laser weapons by 2023, according to a recently released report.<\/p>\n<p>Mary J. Miller, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, speaking before the House Armed Services Committee on Monday, stated that, \u201cI believe we\u2019re very close,\u201d when asked about progress with directed-energy, or laser, weapons.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/military\/20160302\/1035625272\/very-close-pentagon-death-laser.html\">http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/military\/20160302\/1035625272\/very-clo...laser.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new laser tag coming our way; however, this time when you\u2019re tagged, you really are dead. US officials tout the \u2018unprecedented power\u2019 of killing lasers to be released by 2023. The US Army will deploy its first laser weapons by 2023, according to a recently released report. Mary J. Miller, Deputy Assistant Secretary of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68175,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23000\/revisions\/68175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}