Missile Defense Agency's 11 February 2010 test of the airborne laser system mounted aboard a Boeing 747-400F. Target was a liquid-fuel short-range ballistic missile.The Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) fired a low-energy laser to measure and compensate for atmospheric disturbance, then fired its megawatt-class High Energy Laser. The boosting ballistic missile was heated until it exploded.
WTF?
420CoNeZ 5 months ago