It’s obviously offensive barrage ballons equipped with active camoflague and modified apache nosecones dangling linked, devastating, remote weaponry in the Mountains of Afghanistan.
Well it’s got to be either the one that turns them gay or the one that makes that sound that causes people to shit in their pants.
In their gay pants?
I don’t think a new method of killing is what’s being referred to here. I mean, you can apply that to anyone, anywhere.
(Although really, an airborne laser? Yeah, maybe they shrunk that beast on the 747 and stuck it on a C-130, and increased the accuracy, but I’m really not sure how much different it’d be from a normal shell from a pure weapons employment perspective. You’re going to need clear rules of engagement, expectation of collateral damage, and a piss-drunk JAG to use that thing, if it ever gets fielded in the first place. Besides, I have trouble believing a “cleared hot” would be given to an aircraft for the sole purpose of surgically eliminating one person. Way too risky. We have methods for surgical strikes like that, and it ain’t using aircraft.)
If there’s going to be a ‘secret weapon’ that’s giving people like Woodward a hard-on, it’s going to be more in the realm of what Caveat lector, Paul in Saudi, and control-z are talking about.
Caveat: I’ve never heard of TF-145, am not in the Intel world, have no inside knowledge whatsoever, am totally spitballing, etc…
America’s secret weapon is
The courage of the common soldier.
(Superman #23, June-July 1943)
Hey, if it can beat The Man Of Tomorrow, it can beat Bin Liden.
Phase-plasma rifles with a 40-watt range.
- Send Al Qaeda and the insurgents moose antler or wolf hats.
- Send Sarah Palin there in an AC-10 gunship with a current hunting license.
- Victory ensues!
Oops, duplicated.
All we have to do is send Bin Laden on a hunting trip with Cheney. The man’s aim is perfect.
The secret weapon is convincing them that they’re actually fighting the Great Satin. Since China makes most of the world’s textiles these days*, they’d get involved in a land war in Asia. Those never go well.
*(This world fact pulled out of my amazing talking ass.)
A post card that tells them they have won an iPod, and all they need to do is show up at a specific address to claim their prize, and they have to make sure to bring their award notification.
Then when they show up, you’ve got proof of identity and everything.
It’s the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Well, we had to know that the Phoenix program would be reborn… eventually…
I didn’t say that you thought it was a good idea; just that if we could pull it off and they tried it, it wouldn’t work.
I don’t do secret weapons. I do weapons that are announced in speeches that begin, “Well, Superman, you’re probably wondering whether there’s a natural explanation for the smoking crater where Chicago used to be. There isn’t.”
That’s admitting to it after it’s been used - hence it was secret before!
Ha ha!
Well, naturally they’re secret in DEVELOPMENT. I’m not insane.
Hence, you must be involved with this project 
plays James Bond theme
I’ll hazard a guess and say it’s actually a combination of Operations Research techniques, real time UAV intel, and special ops units that can translate diverse information into the ability to initiate raids and other amazingly quick operations.
OTOH, if they tried it and it worked, it would work.