Airborne Laser fires tracking laser, hits target

The YAL-1A, a modified Boeing 747-400F known as the Airborne Laser, takes off from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on March 15 for a five-hour test mission that would see the aircraft's Target Illuminator Laser fired in-flight for the first time. The Airborne Laser is undergoing a long-term test phase at the Air Force Flight Test Center here in preparation for the integration of the Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser, or COIL -- a missile-killing, high-energy chemical laser, later in the year. (Photo by Kellie Masters)

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