[Laserman]

AO does help under certain conditions. The simulation codes and the experimental data were developed in the 70's (I did some of it), and repeated with greater fidelity recently that showed some AO utility. However, with turbulence you can develop a phase compensation instability that further limits its utility.

Worked in SDI myself as well as other national review panels.

[Light Speed]

Any recent news on the THEL program out at White Sands.
Last I heard..they were attempting to fit the THEL to a mobile platform.

Unless the media run was worked up..it appears they had success knocking down multiple Katuysha rockets..which is quite a test over a large incomming missile with a 5-7 minute telemetry track.

[inPhase]

It was established in early 90's that AO cannot help with tb only make things worse, in literature, easy to find.

If you did work in the 70's then you missed the phase compensation instability. Please look in the literature.

there is a real pole in the propagator

grows exp with time found in 88

When you have compensation feedback you have a pole in the propagator which is much worse than thermal blooming itself

all 90's work, many conclusions presented by jasons in dtic U/C


codes in 70's were steady state which cuts off instabilities
and the
existence of poles showed steady state theories were wrong

this was a major result