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AFRL, Boeing, Mobile Laser System Takes On, Destroys UAVs

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Thursday, November 19th, 2009

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The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Boeing [BA] yesterday announced that in May they demonstrated the ability of mobile laser weapon systems to perform a unique mission: track and destroy small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The demonstration served to improve the United States' ability to prevent, detect, track and engage hostile homeland and theater air threats. During the Air Force-sponsored tests at the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, Calif., the Mobile Active Targeting Resource for Integrated eXperiments…

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