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Fun fact about the invention of radar
Radar was a practical by-product of Britain’s initial attempt to develop a
directed energy weapon for air defense. As early as 1934, the British Air Ministry offered 1000 pounds to anybody who would demonstrate the apparatus necessary to kill a sheep at a range of 100 yards
https://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7500/slac-pub-7731.pdf