We want LASERS for our $636m missile defense system': Military experts aim to revive Reagan's Star Wars plan

Almost 30-years after President Reagan promised America an impregnable space-laser defence shield against nuclear missile attack, the country is still waiting.
Pentagon planners and successive president's have since moved away from Reagan's 'Star Wars' Strategic Defence Initiatve (SDI) goal, instead concentrating on an anti-ballistic missile defence that relies on using ground-based rockets.
Famously dismissed by President Eisenhower as 'like hitting a bullet with a bullet', defence analysts are instead lining up to re-invigorate plans for a laser-based defence system, especially with new threats emerging from China and Iran.
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A solid state laser of the type the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) feel should be benefiting from the same level of investment as kinetic 'ramming' anti ballistic missile technology

Amending President Reagan's dream by having the lasers based on the ground or on ships and not in space, the proponents of solid-state laser (SSL) defence hope that by making arguments based in economics and not science fiction they will cause a re-think.
This week, U.S defence firm Raytheon was awarded a $636 million seven-year contract to continue producing its missile based Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) delivery device, which is designed to simply hit an incoming missile at great speed - called a kinetic device.

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