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He said they are working on laser targeting systems that reflect light off prisims and shit like that.


Probably "phase-conjugate mirrors". Real science-fiction stuff when I was in school. But it now appears to be practical in the lab? I just Googled and found a bunch of papers from the late 1990s, not one of which I can read. It may well be getting practical; the research may have "disappeared" if the projects got classified.
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