REDONDO BEACH, Calif., 14 Aug. 2009. Northrop Grumman Corp. engineers who are developing the high power laser for the Airborne Laser (ABL) laser weapon have proven the ABL's laser targeting ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.—Missile defense experts fired the high-power laser aboard the Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft in flight for the first time in August, to move the airborne military laser ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Boeing announced Monday that the Airborne Laser successfully activated a high-energy laser through its beam control/fire control system last week. The company said the test ...

The Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense system drew praise from high-ranking Department of Defense officials, who nonetheless propose cutting the directed energy program. Their comments came during a ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE.- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency on Sept. 7 achieved a major milestone in the development of the Airborne Laser (ABL) ...

The Airborne Laser (ABL) system has rounded its major technical corners, program officials say, and will be testing a surrogate lower-power laser in flight as early as this month. "We're on the verge ...

WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) -- Boeing announced Monday that, working with its partner companies and with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, it has finished work on fitting its high-energy laser on the ...

U.S. Air Force’s Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense program. The ABL TILL is the first diode-pumped Yb:YAG laser that has qualified for flight operation aboard a military aircraft. Raytheon Space ...

The Boeing-led Airborne Laser team has announced the successful completion of a series of tests involving its high-energy laser at the Systems Integration Lab at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

The defense industrial base for one of the Pentagon’s most important missile defense programs is “thin” because there are so few companies involved in much of the highly technical optics work, ...

CHEMICAL LASER: Boeing, industry partners and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have completed installation of the Airborne Laser (ABL) high-energy laser aboard its 747-400 and have begun testing ...

The Airborne Laser ballistic missile defense (BMD) system development program showed further progress, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced. ABL successfully accomplished basic steps required to ...