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Boeing Advanced Tactical Laser Defeats Ground Target In Flight Test

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Monday, September 14th, 2009

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Boeing [BA] and the Air Force recently defeated a ground target from the air with the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) aircraft, demonstrating ATL's first air-to-ground, high-power laser engagement of a tactically representative target. During the test, the C-130H aircraft took off from Kirtland AFB, N.M., and fired its high-power chemical laser through its beam control system while flying over White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The beam control system acquired the ground target--an unoccupied stationary vehicle--and guided the laser beam to…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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