Future Weapons Airborne Laser

Boeings Airborne Laser (ABL) will locate and track missiles in the boost phase of their flight, then accurately point and fire the high-energy laser, destroying enemy missiles near their launch areas.

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• Future
• Weapons
• ABL
• YAL
• 1A
• Airborne
• Laser

[eag11e]

Nice laser, There are now 2 ground based versions of basically the same thing. Allot of advancements are being made!

[Duhello88]

@webbtz3591 expensive toys? haha these "toys" are protecting your freedom. remember that. and welfare and medicaid only hurt the economy. If people aren't willing to work hard in life, they won't make money, why should I (someone who works for what I get) pay for the lazy? doesn't matter if I make 20,000 a year or 20,000,000,000 a year, I earned it and I should have the right to do what I want with it.

[korsican12]

"I don't know anybody at DOD who thinks that this program should, or would, ever be operationally deployed. The reality is that you would need a laser something like 30 times more powerful than the laser in the plane right now to be able to get any distance from the launch site to fire. And there's nobody in uniform that I know who believes that this is a workable concept"-Robert Michael Gates;project cancelled 12/2011 although,laser research still being performed by DARPA but not related YAL-1

[ktulu1992]

IMA FIRIN MAH LAZER.

[SuperGeronimo999]

@Mrbladeos: Uneffective & Expensive, they does already have debt, project was cancelled in december 2011!

[Mrbladeos]

@SuperGeronimo999 they actually canceld this?....when and why.

[aiden1340]

@JohnGaltHasSpoken No they didn't.

[krabbymeal]

laser light or laser that can cut?

[SuperGeronimo999]

This was cancelled in december 2011