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Air Force

Boeing Advanced Tactical Laser Hits Moving Target In Test

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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

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Boeing [BA] and the Air Force anno8unced yesterday that on Sept. 19 their Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) aircraft damaged a moving ground vehicle, completing ATL's first air-to-ground, high-power laser engagement of a mobile target. During the test, the C-130H aircraft took off from Kirtland AFB, N.M., and fired a high-power chemical laser through its beam control system while flying over White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The beam control system guided the laser beam's energy to the unoccupied, remotely controlled target,…

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