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 ...

program director said during a Sept. 4 media conference call. Greg Hyslop, ABL vice president and project manager at Boeing Missile Defense of Huntsville, Ala., said all of the key ABL subsystems have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Airborne Laser (ABL) system has rounded its major technical corners, program officials say, and will be testing a surrogate lower-power laser in flight as early as this month. "We're on the verge ...

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 team has announced the successful completion of a series of tests involving its high-energy laser at the Systems Integration Lab at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

U.S. Air Force’s Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense program. The ABL TILL is the first diode-pumped Yb:YAG laser that has qualified for flight operation aboard a military aircraft. Raytheon Space ...

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.