FOCUSING LIKE A LASER BEAM
AIR FORCE SECRETARY SHEILA WIDNALL is pushing hard for the Airborne Laser (ABL) over kinetic-kill vehicles for missile defense. She says adaptive optics and aircraft stability are the key to making ABL work, but even having to spend to push those technologies still makes the oxygen iodine laser the...
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