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Missile-Proofing Runways

Homeland Security eyes high-power lasers for protecting commercial flights. Click inside for video

Sounds too futuristic to be true? See below for a video of the Skyguard system taking out mortar rounds, artillery shells and rockets

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The Supersonic Shape-Shifting Bomber

With a shift of its wing, the Pentagon's next attack drone goes from long-range endurance flyer to Mach-speed assassin

For years, the U.S. military has wanted a plane that could loiter just outside enemy territory for more than a dozen hours and, on command, hurtle toward a target faster than the speed of sound. And then level it. But aircraft that excel at subsonic flight are inefficient at Mach speeds, and vice versa. The answer is Switchblade, an unmanned, shape-changing plane concept under development by Northrop Grumman.

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