WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s Airborne Laser (ABL) is being prepared for a late July test in which it will attempt to shoot down an ascending target missile from twice the distance of the aircraft’s ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Boeing announced Monday that the Airborne Laser successfully activated a high-energy laser through its beam control/fire control system last week. The company said the test ...

Since the 1960s, the U.S. military has been trying to outfit a commercial jet with a chemical laser, to zap enemy missiles. After years of delays and billions in overspending, this Airborne Laser ...

The defense industrial base for one of the Pentagon’s most important missile defense programs is “thin” because there are so few companies involved in much of the highly technical optics work, ...

Redondo Beach, Calif. - Feb. 19, 2009 - The high-energy laser built by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) successfully fired multiple long-duration blasts onboard the U.S. Missile Defense ...

WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) -- Boeing announced Monday that, working with its partner companies and with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, it has finished work on fitting its high-energy laser on the ...

The New Boeing 747 with the Airborne Laser (ABL) can track and destroy any intercontinental missles. The laser can be shot hundreds of kilometres. The aircraft is covered with IR sensors to detect any ...

The Boeing-led Airborne Laser (ABL) team has begun firing the megawatt-class weapon through the beam control/fire control system and nose-mounted turret on the modified Boeing 747-400F—and into a ...

An airborne laser module constructed by a team from Boeing, TRW, and Lockheed Martin has been successfully tested. The flight-weighted module (FLM), a megawatt-class chemical iodine laser, was tested ...

CHEMICAL LASER: Boeing, industry partners and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have completed installation of the Airborne Laser (ABL) high-energy laser aboard its 747-400 and have begun testing ...

Japan has expressed interest in the US Air Force’s 747-based Airborne Laser (ABL) for boost-phase ballistic-missile defence, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems chief executive James Albaugh revealed.