Thursday, September 03, 2009

Air Force Adds Air-to-Ground Laser Beams to Its Arsenal!


It is 2009, so I would have expected the Air Force to have laser beams a decade or so ago. I guess it is better late than never, because the Air Force finally successfully used laser beams to hit a ground target from the air.

Laser weapons experts from Boeing and the U.S. Air Force defeated a ground target from the air with the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) aircraft Aug. 30 in ATL's first air-to-ground, high power laser engagement of a tactically representative target.

Source: Military and Aerospace Electronics

Image Source: Arcade-History.com

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