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This is an artist rendering of a US military hypersonic cruise vehicle. It appears to be flying on the edge of space, perhaps waiting on orders to strike.

The Buffalo MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) truck may have helped turn the tide in Iraq.

This is the Buffalo’s smaller brother, the Cougar. Like its brother, it too is resistant to most IEDs.

This advertisement for the Buffalo shows-off its IED and mine eating prowess.

"Kids in the Congo were being sent down into mines so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living room," said British politician Oona King, who was a member of Parliament from 1997-2005.

The US military's Tactical High Energy Laser is capable of shooting down cruise missiles, rockets, UAVs and mortars.

This US Air Force C-130 was gutted and armed with a High Energy Laser.

The US Navy's MIRACL, or Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser, was first deployed in 1980. It apparently can shoot down cruise missiles. Thirty years later, has it advanced to a point where it can melt Battleships into the sea? Just right of the laser’s turret is a list of its apparent victims – a cruise missile, five UAVs and a star, which might mean it has taken out a target in space. The MIRACL was reported to have disabled a US Air Force satellite in 1997.

This Humvee is armed with a ZUES HEL (High Energy Laser). Several ZUES lasers were deployed to Iraq at the onset of the 2003 invasion. Two Italian journalists believe a number of Iraqi civilians perished after being targeted by a ZUES.

These photo stills show a US military High Energy Laser shooting down a drone aircraft.

This is what US Army Capt. Lawrence Coyne saw looking out the window of his Super Huey on the night of October 19th, 1973. (Illustration provided by CUFOS)