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Boeing completes its first phase on tests for ballistic missile laser defence system

St. Louis , USA - It's the first step to the final tests in 2009

U.S. company Boeing successfully demonstrated the Airborne Laser's battle management and beam control/fire ballistic missile system in a flight test conducted with a modified Boeing 747-400F operated from Edwards Air Force Base, which used its infrared sensors to find an instrumented target board located on a NC-135E.test aircraft. On the 747 there was no high power laser system, so the test was...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1078716
Rome, Italy, 09/03/2007 17:29
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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