DYNAMITE WITH A LASER BEAM
USAF has ordered its first Boeing 747-400 freighter to be used in the Airborne Laser Program. The aircraft, scheduled to be delivered in 1999, is planned as the first in a fleet of laser-carrying aircraft that will use a high-energy chemical laser to shoot down theater ballistic missiles in the...
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