Laser make something go boom. Still no Blastech DL-44 for me yet.
According to Boeing and the US Air Force, that happened over the White Sands Missile Range on August 30th, when an C-130H aircraft equipped with the Advanced Tactical Laser (or ATL) locked on to an unspecified ground target and fired the 12,000lb high-power chemical laser to make the target disappear from the face of the Earth.
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The article you linked to got it wrong, so you aren't exactly correct.
ReplyDeleteThe parked C-130 was the target.
The ABL is mounted on a 747.
better explanation here:
http://www.examiner.com/x-7773-Phoenix-Aviation-Examiner~y2009m9d3-Missile-defense-laser-fired-in-flight-for-first-time-airborne-laser-destroys-target-update
regards,
Mark