The Boeing YAL-1 airborne laser testbed was a modified Boeing 747-400F with a megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL) mounted inside. It was primarily designed to test its …

An airborne laser (ABL) is a laser system operated from a flying platform, as in the: Soviet/Russian Beriev A-60 (1981, active) American Boeing YAL-1 (2002-2012, scrapped)

Nov 7, 2000 · The US Air Force airborne laser, (ABL), designated YAL-1A, is a high-energy laser weapon system for the destruction of tactical theatre ballistic missiles, which is carried on a …

The Airborne Laser, ABL, uses a high energy Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) on a modified Boeing 747-400F aircraft to detect, track and destroy any class of ballistic missiles in …

Jul 31, 2004 · The world's largest directed-energy weapon, the U.S. Defense Department's Airborne Laser, employs hundreds of complicated optics and several lasers to track down and …

A Tracking and Illuminating Laser (TIL) illuminates missile nose, then a Beacon laser fires at missile. The Beacon's reflected energy is analyzed by wavefront sensors and information fed …

Jan 1, 1996 · It is a demonstration of one of the major technologies–adaptive optics–that may enable USAF to develop a practical airborne laser (ABL) weapon system.

Dec 31, 2024 · The Boeing YAL-1 is a weapons system formerly operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) (source). It is also known as the USAF airborne laser (ABL), with YAL-1 …

On 11 February 2010 the Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) successfully destroyed a boosting ballistic missile. At 8:44 p.m. (PST) a short-range threat-representative ballistic missile was …

The Airborne Laser (ABL), a high-flying megawatt laser that pinpoints a ballistic missile lifting off hundreds of kilometers away, is an alternative to terminal defenses. The utility of the ABL in …