SASC: USAF hasn't made case for Airborne Laser program

The U.S. Air Force has failed to make the case that the Airborne Laser program justifies an investment of $6.3 billion, "especially with a number of other theater missile defense systems competing for limited TMD resources," the Senate Armed Services Committee said in its fiscal 1999 defense...

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