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electric laser flying at 65,000 feet (20 km), firing the same power level at targets potentially up to "hundreds of kilometers" away for survivability against air defenses. While the ABL's laser required 55 kg (121 lb) to generate one kW, the MDA wanted to reduce that to 2–5 kg (4.4–11.0 lb) per kW, totaling 5,000 lb (2,300 kg) for a megawatt. Unlike the ABL, which required its crew to rest and chemical fuel to be reloaded, an electric laser would need only power generating from fuel to fire, so a UAV with in-flight refueling could have near-inexhaustible endurance and armament. A "low-power demonstrator" was planned to fly sometime in or around 2021. Challenges in reaching required power levels on a platform with sufficient performance led to the MDA choosing not to pursue the concept.
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distance from the launch site to fire ... So, right now the ABL would have to orbit inside the borders of Iran in order to be able to try and use its laser to shoot down that missile in the boost phase. And if you were to operationalize this you would be looking at 10 to 20 747s, at a billion and a half dollars apiece, and $ 100 million a year to operate. And there's nobody in uniform that I know who believes that this is a workable concept.
518:). However, the YAL-1 infrared target acquisition system was designed to detect the hot exhaust of TBMs in boost phase. Satellites and other aircraft have a much lower heat signature, making them more difficult to detect. Aside from the difficulty of acquiring and tracking a different kind of target, ground targets such as armored vehicles and possibly even aircraft are not fragile enough to be damaged by a megawatt-class laser.
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program, the laser was operated over 50 times, achieving lasing durations representative of actual operational engagements. These tests fully qualified the system so that it could be integrated into the actual aircraft. Following the completion of the tests, the laboratory was dismantled, and the 747-200 fuselage was removed.
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20 shots, or perhaps as many as 40 low-power shots against fragile TBMs. To refuel the laser, YAL-1 would have to land. The aircraft itself could have been refueled in flight, which would have enabled it to stay aloft for long periods. Preliminary operational plans called for the ABL to be escorted by fighters and possibly
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system destroyed a ballistic missile in any phase of flight. It was later reported that the first
February 11 engagement required 50% less dwell time than expected to destroy the missile, the second engagement on the solid-fuel missile, less than an hour later, had to be cut short before it could be
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The YAL-1 with a low-power laser was test-fired in flight at an airborne target in 2007. A high-energy laser was used to intercept a test target in
January 2010, and the following month, successfully destroyed two test missiles. Funding for the program was cut in 2010 and the program was canceled in
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Robert Gates recommended the cancellation of the planned second ABL aircraft and said that the program should return to a
Research and Development effort. "The ABL program has significant affordability and technology problems and the program's proposed operational role is highly questionable," Gates
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Edwards Air Force Base and fired its high-energy laser while flying over the California High Desert. The laser was fired into an onboard calorimeter, which captured
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California coast on June 6, 2009. At that time it was anticipated that the new Airborne Laser Aircraft could be ready for operation by 2013 after a successful test. On August 13, 2009, the first in-flight test of the YAL-1 culminated with a successful firing of the
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where the airframe was incorporated into the System
Integration Laboratory (SIL) building at Edwards' Birk Flight Test Center, to be used to fit check and test the various components. The SIL was built primarily to test the COIL at a simulated operational altitude, and during that phase of the
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have proven that air mounted energy weapons with increased range and power could be another viable way of destroying otherwise very difficult to intercept sub-orbital ballistic missiles and rockets. On 12 February 2012, the YAL-1 flew its final flight and landed at
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1113:"Home Security Systems : My Home Security"
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1218:"Next ABL Test To Require Twice as Much Range"
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16:Airborne laser demonstrator aircraft by Boeing
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1365:Aerospace Daily & Defense Report
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1015:. USAF press release. Archived from
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1495:"How Does it work - Airborne Laser"
1360:"Lights Out For The Airborne Laser"
1330:"Lights Out For The Airborne Laser"
1305:Hodge, Nathan (February 11, 2011).
1290:. airforcetimes.com. Archived from
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1057:"'Laser jumbo' testing moves ahead"
1011:Hernandez, Jason (March 29, 2007).
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1357:Butler, Amy (December 20, 2011).
1328:Butler, Amy (December 21, 2011).
635:875,000 lb (396,893 kg)
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1242:– via aviationweek.com.
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702:2 Ă— Target Illuminator lasers
523:Union of Concerned Scientists
5096:Aircraft first flown in 2002
1391:"The Death of A Giant Laser"
1389:Nogee, Allen (May 6, 2014).
951:. boeing.com. Archived from
643:General Electric CF6-80C2B5F
299:chemical oxygen iodine laser
291:manufacturer's serial number
281:The aircraft was built as a
258:was supplying the COIL, and
190:Davis–Monthan Air Force Base
162:chemical oxygen iodine laser
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1266:"Missile Defense Umbrella?"
1255:, February 22, 2010, p. 26.
978:. Air Force. Archived from
901:"Airborne Laser Laboratory"
819:. Air Force. Archived from
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170:tactical ballistic missiles
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723:Tactical High Energy Laser
559:417th Flight Test Squadron
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2124:Patrol and surveillance
1599:m-selig.ae.illinois.edu
1314:The Wall Street Journal
883:Flight Image of the Day
713:Advanced Tactical Laser
586:General characteristics
554:United States Air Force
527:Advanced Tactical Laser
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85:United States Air Force
2712:aircraft model numbers
1499:www.airborne-laser.com
1397:. Strategies Unlimited
1173:Edwards Air Force Base
1139:Edwards Air Force Base
805:on September 30, 2007.
769:List of laser articles
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4998:Boeing Customer Codes
1571:on December 11, 2005.
1483:on February 13, 2007.
1205:on February 15, 2010.
1035:www.planespotters.net
982:on December 11, 2008.
958:on February 24, 2007.
915:"Airborne Laser:News"
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1276:on January 11, 2011.
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889:on October 20, 2013.
625:BAC 463 to BAC 468;
327:Secretary of Defense
24:YAL-1 Airborne Laser
5023: /
1019:on January 7, 2008.
729:Related development
633:Max takeoff weight:
521:An analysis by the
265:In 2001, a retired
41:General information
2567:Boeing Dreamlifter
1177:The Boeing Company
1143:The Boeing Company
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1101:on April 10, 2009.
995:A Mojave Scrapbook
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1179:. August 20, 2009
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