By The Airborne Laser Test Bed (ALTB), which achieved a historic first shooting down a boosting ballistic missile, demonstrating a directed energy weapon could be used for missile defense, now heads to long term storage, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said. Between 1996 and 2011, a total of $5.3 billion was spent on the program, of which MDA funded $4.1 billion. ALTB has flown more than 200 missions, achieved 12 out of 12 knowledge points, and successfully proven the capability of…
Historic ABL Program Winds Down, Aircraft Heads To Storage
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