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ABL Completes “Passive Testing” Phase

August 1, 2005 :: The Missile Defense Agency :: News

The Airborne Laser has completed an eight-month series of flight tests and performance demonstrates, called initial “passive testing,” announced the Missile Defense Agency today. The YAL-1A aircraft, a specially configured Boeing 747, will now head to a facility in Wichita, Kansas facility for final modification prior to installation of the advanced high-power Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser (COIL).
        Colonel John Daniels, the ABL System Program Director, commented that, “It is truly amazing how much we’ve been able to accomplish in the past eight months. We have a long way to go, but we’ve made incredible progress so far.” In Wichita the aircraft will enter a new phase of testing to demonstrate ability to detect and track targets.
        As the MDA news release notes, “The ABL will be the first combat aircraft relying entirely upon a directed energy device as a weapon.” (Article)

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