Successful AIBORNE LASER missile engagement

8/18/2009 – EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California – The Missile Defense Agency’s

20090810 USAF photo Jim Shryne – YAL-1A Airborne Laser aircraft

Airborne Laser YAL -1A prototype aircraft successfully acquired, tracked, provided atmospheric compensation and simulated the directed energy kill sequence against an instrumented boosting missile target using three onboard low-power lasers on August 10.

US Air Force Link courtesy (www.af.mil)

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