Hybrid Lasers Draw Interest
Credit: U.S. Air Force
Ever since U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates called the concept of a chemical-laser equipped aircraft for missile defense “highly questionable” and scaled back plans to buy and field such a system, the Airborne Laser test- bed has existed in a state of limbo. But military officials and scientists...
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