"If you’ve shot a Spartan laser in Halo, you can probably fire [one of the cutting-edge weapons] in real life."
Me at 10 years old training to destroy Iranian infrastructure:
NEW: The U.S. is using Xbox video game controllers to control infrared lasers to dismantle Iranian infrastructure, according to the New York Post.
"If you’ve shot a Spartan laser in Halo, you can probably fire [one of the cutting-edge weapons] in real life."
"Sec Hegseth was able to take over a controller and shoot down a drone with, I think, a couple minutes of training," Jared Keller with Laser Wars told The Post about a laser demonstration in New Mexico.
The military is reportedly using reconfigured Xbox controllers because, "why reinvent the wheel with a specialized control system when you can just use an Xbox controller?"
The U.S. military is using the lasers in the Strait of Hormuz, taking out "drones and incoming cruise missiles at a much lower cost than using more expensive kinetic weapons like missiles,” according to the Department of War.
The lasers are invisible to the naked eye and heat up the surface they are directed at until the object explodes or melts.
Here is a list of the countries reported as walking out:
Suriname
Tuvalu
Turkmenistan
Yemen
Egypt
Panama
Senegal
Palestine
Sudan
Tunisia
Turkey
Venezuela
Antigua and Barbuda
Belize
Congo
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Tonga
Uzbekistan
Angola
Barbados
Colombia
Comoros
Dominica
Djibouti
North Macedonia
San Marino
South Africa
Somalia
Algeria
Bangladesh
Brunei Darussalam
Brazil
Chile
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Lebanon
Liberia
Eritrea
Chad
Central African Republic
Libya
Mauritania
Jordan
Nicaragua
Madagascar
Niger
Peru
Saint Lucia
Slovenia
Afghanistan
Bahamas
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
North Korea
Eswatini
Syria
Uganda
Pakistan
Lesotho
Bolivia
Spain
Cuba
Equatorial Guinea
Iran
Kyrgyzstan
Iraq
Mozambique
Myanmar
Ireland
Maldives
Indonesia
Kuwait
Namibia
Malaysia
Guyana
Kenya
Benjamin Netanyahu mentions Hasan Piker when attacking Zohran Mamdani
"It's no wonder you praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas, you count as friends people like Hasan Piker"
PAGING HEZBOLLAH
Israel's beeper operation was the most phenomenal intelligence operation of the century.
Mossad sold boobytrapped pagers to Hezbollah, to blow its terrorists' balls off if they attacked Israel.
Now it's a documentary 🍿
WOW!! Benjamin Netanyahu brought a beeper to the UN:
“You remember the beepers?
Well, I can tell you this, Hezbollah certainly remembers them.”
Holy shit.