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Testing the YAL-1A Airborne Laser Test Bed aircraft at Edwards AFB (17 Photos)

Author: Rick | February 22, 2012 | In: Aircraft, Future, U.S. Air Force

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The aircraft's nose displays the accomplishments it had while it was tested at Edwards AFB, Calif. During its tenure here, the ALTB successfully engaged various instrumented rockets and successfully engaged and destroyed a boosting solid-fueled Terrier Black Brant rocket and a boosting liquid-fueled Foreign Military Acquisition missile.

The aircraft’s nose displays the accomplishments it had while it was tested at Edwards AFB, Calif. During its tenure here, the ALTB successfully engaged various instrumented rockets and successfully engaged and destroyed a boosting solid-fueled Terrier Black Brant rocket and a boosting liquid-fueled Foreign Military Acquisition missile.


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Category: Aircraft, Future, U.S. Air Force

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  • etcrr

    the future has arrived. Now lets see what they do with it

  • Kodos

    Cool; but they have since mothballed this project.

    Can't get enough power through the laser.
    And you don't want a big, lumbering target like a 747 in a hot zone.

  • MKAngel

    how about microwaving pizzas in the stratosphere?

  • DEZZA

    I didnt realise it had been mothballed, so they didnt get much futher than the C135 airborne laser that flew out of Kirtland AFB?
    What ranges were they engaging targets at any one know?

  • It's gone

    http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/airborn-l…

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