An airborne laser (ABL) is a laser system operated from a flying platform, as in the: Soviet/Russian Beriev A-60 (1981, active) American Boeing YAL-1...

seismology, forestry, atmospheric physics, laser guidance, airborne laser swathe mapping (ALSM), and laser altimetry. It is used to make digital 3-D representations...

The Boeing YAL-1 airborne laser testbed was a modified Boeing 747-400F with a megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL) mounted inside. It was...

the destruction of incoming missiles. One such example is the Boeing Airborne Laser, constructed inside a Boeing 747 and designated as the YAL-1. This system...

systems are the Scanning Hydrographic Operational Airborne Lidar Survey (SHOALS) and the Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS). SHOALS was first developed...

Laser, is a 20 kW COIL laser tested by the United States Air Force in around 1998. COIL is a component of the United States' military airborne laser and...

kilometres and weigh about 5,000–7,000 kg. This program is distinct from the Airborne Laser, which was a much larger system designed to destroy enemy missiles in...

simulator for flight testing the Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser. On March 15, 2007, the YAL-1 successfully fired this laser in flight, hitting its target. The target...

airborne laser laboratory aircraft based on the Ilyushin Il-76MD transport— it was originally developed in the former Soviet Union for its airborne forces...

March 2006 for flight testing on Boeing YAL-1A Airborne Laser aircraft (ABL). The ABL was an airborne-directed energy weapon system. The YAL-1A is a prototype...