Team ABL conducts 'first light' test for Airborne Laser program

Team ABL, composed of Boeing, TRW and Lockheed Martin, has conducted the first test of the flight-weighted laser module (FLM), a multi-hundred- kilowatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL), at TRW's Capistrano Test Site near San Clemente, Calif. The FLM is the fundamental "building block" for...

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