If you believe the DoD, they were caught off guard during the California forest fires when someone was pew pewing things on the ground with a laser from space.
I cannot, for the life of me find the video of the DoD making that public statement. It was talked about here during the whole 'campfire rd' fiasco.
I've posted prior, again, no sauce because it was given to me first hand that it's the reason Gen Miley was ensuring China Trump was leaving because they supposedly have no defense against it.
I personally don't give a damn, they should have alerted the public as a full scale attack was launched on China but instead they essentially surrendered on our behalf.
This is believed to be the Q, 'It had to be this way', Russia claiming hypersonic, china claiming super lasers.
Truth is hard to come by these days.