[jonrick46]

The Air Born Laser (ABL) built by Boeing, is not ready for deployment. Once this anti missile system is in the air, any low altitude payload will be vaporized from a high altitude platform. Such a platform will be above any cloud layer which would shield missiles from land based lasers.

We are in slow the clock mode when we can pull out our ace card, the ABL. Patience folks.

[SJSAMPLE]

Can the ABL detect and engage rockets that don't acheive any signigicant altitude? I doubt it. Picking a single Katusha from ground clutter would be problematic, at best.

The ABL is designed to engage ballistic missiles in the boost phase, and I've seen demonstrations of a precursor system against cruise and anti-ship missiles, but I doubt it would have the time to detect, track and engage Katusha rockets in flight. Especially when launched in volley.