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Is it shooting lasers? I thought laser weapons weren't invented before 1977?
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Tracer rounds? Not sure they were doing particularly high speed photography with this image.
I just DuckDuckGo'ed it. Turns out the laser was actually invented in 1960 it was just considered a useless invention until Star Wars proved it could be uses for weapons.
For when the hangar door is stuck and you really want to just get the plane in and go to the pub.
That was a fascinating article. I had never heard of these planes and their role in WWII before.
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