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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Update on Airborne Laser Test Bed Experiment

Update on Airborne Laser Test Bed Experiment

"...The Agency plans to resume flight experiments beginning with tests of the software repair on September 13 leading to a lethal shootdown experiment involving a solid-fuel target missile by the end of this month. A mid-October experiment is in the planning stages that will involve lasing a solid-fuel missile at three times the range of last February’s successful destruction of a liquid-fuel missile. ..."

Reference: www.mda.mil .