FY '07 defense budget scales back airborne laser to demo program

The Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser (ABL) program has been scaled back to a demonstration program in the Defense Department's $439.3 billion fiscal 2007 budget request, Pentagon officials said Feb. 6. ABL, a modified Boeing 747-400 freighter equipped with a high-energy chemical laser to...

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