The US Air Force Just Shot Down Multiple Missiles with a Laser

The U.S. Air Force has revealed that a ground-based surrogate for a laser weapon system that could protect American fighter jets and other aircraft from incoming threats in the future has successfully shot down multiple air-launched missiles in a test. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) conducted the test on Apr. 23, 2019, at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, together with defense contractor Lockheed Martin, which is developing the laser. We don’t know what platform the Air Force and Lockheed Martin might use for those tests, but the defense contractor did use a modified Dassault Falcon 10 business jet to carry a turreted laser for a previous program known as Aero-Adaptive, Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC).

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