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...

Yal, or YAL, can mean: Boeing YAL-1, a US Air Force test aircraft for anti-missile laser development Yāḻ, an ancient Tamil harp YAL, the IATA code for...

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

Skyfox Boeing–Saab T-7 Red Hawk Boeing 737 AEW&C (E-7 Wedgetail) Boeing Model 42 Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser Boeing E-3 Sentry (an Airborne Early Warning...

platform, as in the: Soviet/Russian Beriev A-60 (1981, active) American Boeing YAL-1 (2002-2012, scrapped) An American modified NKC-135A unit (1975-1984,...

Airbus and Boeing Related development Boeing YAL-1 Boeing 747-8 747 Supertanker Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Boeing 777-300ER Airbus...

I" & 63-8050 NKC-135B "Big Crow II" used as airborne targets for the Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser carrier. KC-135Q KC-135As modified to carry JP-7 fuel...

replace the Boeing E-4 NAOC. Five 747-8Is were purchased from Korean Air for conversion, with the contract calling for nine in total. YAL-1 – This was...

C-32 – Boeing C-33 – Boeing C-34 – skipped C-35 – Cessna C-36 – reserved for a four-engined aircraft, speculated to have been the Boeing YAL-1 C-37 –...

director turret for targeting lidar (twenty years later, Boeing used a similar concept in the YAL-1 test platform, although for the main laser, not targeting)...