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YAL-1A Airborne Laser (ABL) has completed preliminary flight testing and is being prepared to accept the high-power laser, beam control and other hardware it needs to shoot down a boosting ballistic missile (see p. 52). The modified Boeing 747-400F freighter is shown over the Sierra Nevada after...
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