October 2, 2009
Video: Airborne laser test
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have been busy this summer testing the Advanced Tactical Laser, a high-power directed energy weapon mounted on a C-130H Hercules transport.
In this August 30 test at New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range , the laser was fired at a target for the first time, with the following result. (Later footage of the laser “defeating” the target, or rendering it completely inoperable, is not yet available.)
Boeing has more videos, including this aerial view of the test:
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Pingback by Video of laser weapon fired from airplane on Talks-UK.com — October 2, 2009 @ 6:48 pm
Wow. I guess if you want your trucks paint removed, our friends at Boeing will be happy to supply a billion dollar paint removal aircraft to do the job. They can probably arrange to do it while you’re at work like the windshield replacement guys.
It’s not too hard to tell why the Defense Department is putting the airborn laser program back into development stage. I had been following this story for a while but I had never figured this thing hit with the power of my old zippo. Surly this can’t be the end of the story.
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incradible, from a plane!
Comment by photofunny — October 5, 2009 @ 8:43 pm
USA boast of having weapons capable of enter a rocket into the keyhole, but every war beginning is marked by mistaken bombing hospitals, schools, troops of its own, and so on.
Which is it?
Comment by Osvaldo J. Schiavoni — October 5, 2009 @ 9:28 pm
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Hm.. doesn’t seem powerful enough as a weapon. But maybe if they adjust the energy level they could use it to whiten people’s teeth from airplanes.
Comment by dog — November 19, 2009 @ 1:22 pm
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Meanwhile, back in October 1984, the Russians used a laser weapon on low power to ‘light up’ the space shuttle Challenger during STS-41-G. It caused malfunctions and temporary blindness to the crew which led to an official US diplomatic protest. That was over 25 years ago! And we’re just now burning little holes in a truck hood from an airplane flying over it?
Comment by Fill — November 19, 2009 @ 4:01 pm