参议员赫夫林(Howell Heflin)已成为一位加速美国军用高能激光工作的主要支持者。他指出,苏联已拥有一台可作战的陆基反卫星激光器。除对美国高能激光研究给予较高的资助外,赫夫林正在设法增加联邦协作工作,包括采用立法手段,建立国家 Senator Howell Heflin has become a major advocate of accelerating US military use of high-energy lasers. He pointed out that the Soviet Union already has a combatable land-based anti-satellite laser. In addition to higher funding for high-energy laser research in the United States, Huffling is trying to increase federal collaboration, including legislative measures to establish the state