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Melt a tank

Posted on March 14, 2008 | Comments Off on Melt a tank

Or, more likely, melt (or set afire) the bed of that baby pickup the bad guys are using to carry themselves and their heavy machinegun into battle. Looks like Boeing has beaten the Air Force to the draw on the chemical airborne laser. Although the AF version, which is already a year late, has the more important and tricky task of downing in-flight enemy ballistic missiles.

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Norks & Iran: almost ready for you

Posted on October 29, 2006 | Comments Off on Norks & Iran: almost ready for you

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More than two decades in the making, ridiculed as "Star Wars" when proposed during the Reagan Administration, the Airborne Laser finally will be equipped with its laser, in 2007, at Kirtland AFB, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, then move on to aerial tests in 2008. "When finished, ABL will be capable of destroying a ballistic missile during its boost phase, while it is still climbing in the Earth’s atmosphere and before it can deploy its warheads."

Even if it has only one, primitive North Korean warhead. 

Via Security Watchtower 

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