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...Shagan, a weapons testing area near the Chinese border. The first authoritative press account of Soviet progress in beam weapons was put together by two editors of Aviation Week & Space Technology, Clarence Robinson Jr. and Philip Klass. They pointed out that at Sary-Shagan the Soviets are apparently using Pavlovski generators, highly advanced devices that convert the energy released by controlled blasts of explosives directly into bursts of electricity. The Soviets probably already have an operational HEL that could "blind" U.S. reconnaissance spacecraft orbiting at an altitude of 240 km (150 miles...
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