Program Profile: Airborne Laser
The Airborne Laser (ABL) is a highly modified Boeing 747-400F aircraft being designed to fire a megawatt high-energy laser at enemy ballistic missiles in their boost phase, the first 300 seconds or so of flight. ABL is one element of a projected system of layered missile defenses that ultimately...
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