ABL ready to test surrogate laser this month

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 of showing we have beam control and fire control," Greg Hyslop, Boeing vice president and ABL...

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