Nice mental meandings but no...
The “first” #1 FIRST thing the Russians would’ve done after coming in and investigating would’ve been to either themselves or through other intel sources announce that the Americans were using lasers on an airborne platform in combat.
Simply put...it would’ve come out by now.
‘Twere tongue in cheek from sentence two, on.
FELs are too big for airplanes, too.
Regardless of big Bahamians, I don’t believe the power scale up problems were solved.