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To: equaviator

Maybe break out this bad boy...

The Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser Testbed weapons system was a megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser mounted inside a modified military Boeing 747-400F. It was primarily designed as a missile defense system to destroy tactical ballistic missiles while in boost phase


152 posted on 02/12/2023 2:45:13 PM PST by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even n the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Robe

Doesn’t sound like “capture and preserve” to me, but I would love to witness from the air a demonstration of that technology.


156 posted on 02/12/2023 2:52:44 PM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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