Government Lasers; my idea is better

*Solid-State Laser Ready For On-Board Tests*
A U.S. Navy plan to test a high-power laser against the small-boat threat
to its warships provides the first real opportunity to transition electric lasers
from the laboratory to the field, says Northrop Grumman, which has won
a $98-million contract for the Maritime Laser Demonstration (MLD).
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THIS is a barrage balloon

Dear Sirs,

Sounds expensive. My idea is cheaper and more effective. What you do, see,
is take some of the Barrage Balloons out of mothballs and float them over
each military ship. Then when unidentified boats come close, you project a
movie against it, the type of movie depending on the range to target. If
they are in the outer danger zone, you show a movie of a guy being put in
handcuffs and manhandled into the back of a police cruiser, or someone
kacking on their flag. The closer the boats get to the ship, the movies
become more explicit, until they are showing a closeup of somebody's nards
getting crushed by a berserk gorilla, or a Sea Javelin missile incinerating
their favorite restaurant.

The danger of course in a counter measure like somehow projecting a shadow
of someone making a rabbit sign on the screen.

Sincerely,

Mandrake