Originally Posted by CO FF
Fredd - that was exactly what I was going to say. Clancy wrote the scene with John Clark & Domingo Chavez using lasers to blind Japanese AWACS pilots on landing, in Debt of Honor, as a prelude to the US Special Forces attack. A few hundred pages later, he has the JAL 747 crashing into the Capitol.
But, of course, that's fiction.
Yes indeed. One of my favorite of Oscar Wilde's aphorisms is "Life is an imitation of art." Let's hope Clancy's fiction isn't prophetic in regard to laser attacks at least.