We know actually that some 'star-wars-weapons' functioned properly (at
least in the US).
For instance the WTC-complex looked after 9/11, as if someone shot down
a beam, which dematerialised about a million tons of steel and concrete.
If the US military did that, it would have been the worst strategical
error of all times (because now everybody wants such a 'disintegrator').
So, possibly these star-wars-beam-weapons were not American.
But who else could have done that and for what reason?
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