On the closeup of the mysterious white plane, how did that tree magically appear?
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The ABL doesn't burn through a missile, or disintegrate it. Rather it heats the missile skin, weakening it and causing failure due to flight stresses.

Originally posted by slackerwire
On the closeup of the mysterious white plane, how did that tree magically appear?
Originally scheduled for operation by 2008, due to development difficulties the program was "rescoped". The current plan calls for a prototype ABL to attempt shoot down of a test missile in 2008, delaying the final production design until after this test. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) says this is to allow design changes based on data acquired during the test. In effect it delays the ABL attaining operational capability for several years
Boeing completed initial modifications to the 747-400F in 2002, culminating in its first flight on July 18, 2002 from Boeing's Wichita, Kansas facility
Besides the COIL, the system also includes two kilowatt-class Target Illuminator Lasers for target tracking.
Originally posted by wenfieldsecret
it wasnt tested succesfully in flight untill earlier this year
not a one line post
During the test, the modified Boeing 747-400F took off from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and used its infrared sensors and its track illuminator laser (TILL) to find and track an instrumented target board located on the U.S. Air Force's NC-135E Big Crow test aircraft. The Big Crow then fired its beacon laser at the ABL aircraft to allow ABL to measure and compensate for laser beam distortion caused by the atmosphere. Finally, ABL fired the surrogate high-energy laser (SHEL) at the Big Crow target board to simulate a missile shootdown. With the exception of ABL's beacon illuminator laser (BILL), this flight test demonstrated the entire engagement sequence from target acquisition to pointing and firing the SHEL.
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Originally posted by 11 11
Are you claiming to know the capabilities of this CLASSIFIED WEAPON?
And how do you know this for a fact? How do you know the military haven't been secretly testing this TESLA based weapon for many years? All we know is what we are told, that is not exactly the truth.
tesla based weapons that advanced, why bother placing them on a visable platform like the ABL? as opposed to space based? Why
deploy and use a weapons system that has to be seen to be used? If we are to believe your statement that they have deployed a classified system
already Why fly it so close? You could be orbiting in New Jersey and still use it. heck you could be 400 km's away over the open ocean where NO one
would see you.
The one-megawatt laser will have a range of four hundred kilometers, and an ABL will be able to fire the laser 30 times per sortie.
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Of the 110 stories, eight were set aside for technical services (mechanical floors) Level B6/B5, Floors 7/8, 41/42, 75/76 and 108/109, in four two-floor areas evenly spread up the building.
The laser operates at an infrared wavelength of 1.315 microns, which is invisible to the eye.
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