Airborne Lasers Offer New Hope for Missile Defense Agency Written 18 June 2024
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YAL-1A Airborne Laser in flight. | Credit: US Missile Defense Agency; Wikipedia; Public Domain
Breaking Defense reports, “Airborne lasers are back in the sights of the Missile Defense Agency — a decade after the first attempt to build a system collapsed, having swallowed 16 years and $5 billion in research and development.” Mark Lewis, formerly “the Pentagon’s senior scientist now CEO of the Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI), gave MDA a thumbs up for taking a new look at the concept, noting that the technology has come a long way since 2014.”
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