Pentagon successfully fires high-energy laser in flight

[Eckhart Tolle]

Pentagon successfully fires high-energy laser in flight


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21/08/2009  2:42pm


http://en.rian.ru/world/20090821/155877236.html

MOSCOW, August 21 (RIA Novosti) -- The U.S. has successfully fired the Airborne Laser's (ABL) weapon's system megawatt-class Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) in flight, the Missile Defense Agency said.

It said the megawatt-class laser was fired into a modified Boeing 747-400F prototype aircraft that captured the laser energy and measured performance characteristics of the beam.

The agency said it was the final step in flight tests.

"Although significant work remains before external lasing in flight can take place, this phase of COIL testing represents a major step toward the ABL's planned lethal demonstration against a boosting missile later this year," the MDA said.

It said ABL was being developed as a future element of "the nation's ballistic missile defense system," and the first to use directed energy to destroy ballistic missiles in their "boost" phase.

[Eckhart Tolle]

OOOHHHH BOYYYY!!!!!!!

War is soooo neat.

Anyone got a huge mirror?

[Monkeypox]

Oh boy, the ray guns are finally here.

 

[Satyagraha]

Airborne Laser - Ballistic Missile Suppression
http://gadgetmaniac.mail2web.com/2006/03/airborne-laser-ballistic-missile-suppression/


Here’s a striking view of the business end of that Airborne Laser (ABL) intended to shoot down ballistic missiles during lift-off. The main laser is a megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser, aka COIL, with output at a wavelength of 1.315 �m. A good system overview can be found at Operational Implications of Laser Weapons, with some of the challenges described here and here.

In-flight testing of the ABL will start within a year - that pretty much guarantees that hostiles will start spray-painting their birds with infrared reflective paint within a year.

[lavosslayer]

Oh boy, the ray guns are finally here.

 

just wait until they throw one of these bad boys into a couple of satellites for their orbital defense system... talk about global enslavement...

[lavosslayer]

This information is over 2 years old.......

the info in Pilikia's post is but not the OP...the successful fire just recently occurred

[Satyagraha]

Airborne Laser
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/abl.htm

The ABL weapon system consists of a high-energy, chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL) mounted on a modified 747-400F (freighter) aircraft to shoot down theater ballistic missiles in their boost phase. A crew of four, including pilot and copilot, would be required to operate the airborne laser, which would patrol in pairs at high altitude, about 40,000 feet, flying in orbits over friendly territory, scanning the horizon for the plumes of rising missiles. Capable of autonomous operation, the ABL would acquire and track missiles in the boost phase of flight, illuminating the missile with a tracking laser beam while computers measure the distance and calculate its course and direction. After acquiring and locking onto the target, a second laser - with weapons-class strength - would fire a three- to five-second burst from a turret located in the 747's nose, destroying the missiles over the launch area.

The airborne laser would fire a Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser, or COIL, invented at Phillips Lab in 1977. The laser's fuel consists of the same chemicals found in hair bleach and Drano - hydrogen peroxide and potassium hydroxide - which are then combined with chlorine gas and water. The laser operates at an infrared wavelength of 1.315 microns, which is invisible to the eye. By recycling chemicals, building with plastics and using a unique cooling process, the COIL team was able to make the laser lighter and more efficient while - at the same time - increasing its power by 400 percent in five years. The flight-weighted ABL module would be similar in performance and power levels to the multi-hundred kilowatt class COIL Baseline Demonstration Laser (BDL-2) module demonstrated by TRW in August 1996. As its name implies, though, it would be lighter and more compact than the earlier version due to the integration of advanced aerospace materials into the design of critical hardware components. For the operational ABL system, several modules would be linked together in series to achieve ABL's required megawatt-class power level.

Atmospheric turbulence, which weakens and scatters the laser's beam, is produced by fluctuations in air temperature [the same phenomenon that causes stars to twinkle]. Adaptive optics rely on a deformable mirror, sometimes called a rubber mirror, to compensate for tilt and phase distortions in the atmosphere. The mirror has 341 actuators that change at a rate of about a 1,000 per second.



The Airborne Laser is a Major Defense Acquisition Program. After the Concept Design Phase is complete, the ABL will enter the Program Definition and Risk Reduction (PDRR) Phase. The objective of the PDRR phase is to develop a cost effective, flexible airborne high energy laser system which provides a credible deterrent and lethal defensive capabilities against boosting theater ballistic missiles.
The ABL PDRR Program is intended to show high confidence system performance scalable to Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) levels. The PDRR Program includes the design, development, integration, and testing of an airborne high-energy laser weapon system.

In May 1994, two contracts were awarded to develop fully operational ABL weapon system concepts and then derive ABL PDRR Program concepts that are fully traceable and scaleable EMD. A single contract team was selected to proceed with the development of the chosen PDRR concept beginning in November 1996. Successful development and testing of the laser module is one of the critical 'exit criteria' that Team ABL must satisfy to pass the program's first 'authority-to-proceed' (ATP-1) milestone, scheduled for June 1998. Testing of the laser module is expected to be completed by April 1998. The PDRR detailed design, integration, and test will culminate in a lethality demonstration in the year 2002. A follow-on Engineering Manufacturing and Development/Production (EMD) effort could then begin in the early 2003 time frame. A fleet of fully operational EMD systems is intended to satisfy Air Combat Command's boost-phase Theater Air Defense requirements. If all goes as planned, a fleet of seven ABLs should be flying operational missions by 2008.

Performance requirements for the Airborne Laser Weapons System are established by the operational scenarios and support requirements defined by the user, Air Combat Command, and by measured target vulnerability characteristics provided by the Air Force lethality and vulnerability community centered at the Phillips Laboratory. The ABL PDRR Program is supported by a robust technology insertion and risk reduction program to provide early confidence that scaling to EMD performance is feasible. The technology and concept design efforts provide key answers to the PDRR design effort in the areas of lethality, atmospheric characterization, beam control, aircraft systems integration, and environmental concerns. These efforts are the source of necessary data applied to exit criteria ensuring higher and higher levels of confidence are progressively reached at key milestones of the PDRR development.

The key issues in the program will be effective range of the laser and systems integration of a Boeing 747 aircraft.

[Monkeypox]

just wait until they throw one of these bad boys into a couple of satellites for their orbital defense system... talk about global enslavement...

Probably already there...

[Satyagraha]

the info in Pilikia's post is but not the OP...the successful fire just recently occurred

Yes, they've been working on this for years. I am posting historical info that I'm finding. The weapons are here now... but they've been in development for 10 years at least.

[Satyagraha]

Sane posted this on another thread. WATCH it.. you'll see that this particular weapon is one in the arsenal they've been planning for years.

Quote from: Sane on 20-08-2009, 22:33:33

MUST WATCH ASAP!

You want to know the purpose of NASA?
59 min - Apr 23, 2006 -   
The Space Program and the Military Industrial Complex
Arsenal of Hypocrisy
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4835966027154828456

They've got a big new playground to test these weapons... the world, and (for the kill) the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The drones are just the beginning.

[unitedstrokesofamerica]

They can steer a hurricane and start a earthquake and they show of this crap like they are working hard on it.  IT IS DONE,  Such a joke...

[Satyagraha]

They can steer a hurricane and start a earthquake and they show of this crap like they are working hard on it.  IT IS DONE,  Such a joke...

QFT.

[Monkeypox]

They can steer a hurricane and start a earthquake and they show of this crap like they are working hard on it.  IT IS DONE,  Such a joke...

Years ago, I was drinking with someone who worked for the Army as a civilian.  We were talking about the proposed "Star Wars" missile defense program, and he snorted and said "we already have that".  Then he realized what he had said and promptly shut up.  He wouldn't say another word about it.

[Berminator]

Years ago, I was drinking with someone who worked for the Army as a civilian.  We were talking about the proposed "Star Wars" missile defense program, and he snorted and said "we already have that".  Then he realized what he had said and promptly shut up.  He wouldn't say another word about it.

These new green lasr pointers can melt black eletrical tape at 5ft.

[Monkeypox]

These new green lasr pointers can melt black eletrical tape at 5ft.

 

Normal laser pointers you can buy at Staples?

[Berminator]

Normal laser pointers you can buy at Staples?

$200 online stores, very powerful ones comin' out now, torch size.

http://www.novalasers.com/ these guys had the record for the biggest laser ever made.

[Spark of Truth Inc.]

Green laser pointer shone at police helicopter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUpmLbkzyEI

'tracers work both ways' 

[Berminator]

Green laser pointer shone at police helicopter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUpmLbkzyEI

'tracers work both ways'  

They're used in Iraq to stop cars at great distances.

[Cobra]

Green laser pointer shone at police helicopter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUpmLbkzyEI

'tracers work both ways' 

About the dumbest shit to do.

[Unintelligable Name]

Hooray for plausible deniability... even though it's not really hard to deduce who just lazer beamed that VIP's car, etc.

[Berminator]

About the dumbest shit to do.

yes, also don't look at one, our eye reflexes are'nt quick enough for these,
little red ones no problem.

[unitedstrokesofamerica]

Years ago, I was drinking with someone who worked for the Army as a civilian.  We were talking about the proposed "Star Wars" missile defense program, and he snorted and said "we already have that".  Then he realized what he had said and promptly shut up.  He wouldn't say another word about it.

yeah this stuff they are "showing off" is OLD tech.... Imagine the stuff "we" don't even know about.   

[Spark of Truth Inc.]

Sorry for posting slightly off topic, but this video is wild imho.
A guy with a green laser (Hulk, a stronger one, 150mW) directs a flock of birds by pointing the laser at them. It's insane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWEfMTPQCCA&feature=channel

You can buy those lasers pretty cheap. In one video they said, that the pulse of those new lasers is too strong for the human eye and it can't protect itself fast enough and under the right circumstances leave a blind spot on the retina of someone's eye.

Imagine what the big laser in this 747 nose turret can do to a crowd of peoples. 

[Unintelligable Name]

Imagine what the big laser in this 747 nose turret can do to a crowd of peoples.  

*Puts on welding helmet*

Damnit... it's not fiting over my tinfoil hat...

Ah, lol http://www.dragonlasers.com/catalog/Laser-Glasses-Green-and-blue-laser-beam-protection-p-16242.html

[Berminator]

I've seen a 125mw touch the stars.
Lasers- the strongest light man has ever made.

[Dig]

MUST WATCH ASAP!

You want to know the purpose of NASA?

Arsenal of Hypocrisy
59 min - Apr 23, 2006 -    
The Space Program and the Military Industrial Complex
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4835966027154828456

For all of you who wish to understand more about how deadly the space weaponry projects are, PP Forum member Brendan has generously given much of his time and knowledge to this forum. He has a room dedicated to space based weaponry systems and there is a sub room dedicated to the recent war test where the military shot a descending satellite which came in at meteor speed out of the sky.

Here is the room to gain a much deeper understanding of where the $23.7 Trillion dollars actually goes:

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?board=293.0

The American people have absolutely no rights whatsoever to these systems and there are hundreds more that we do not even know about.

When we ask where the money is and they have no answer...I would ask to see the audited books for the systems described in the link above (besides all of the castles for the elite pigs).

[J. Croft]

I've looked into this, and I very strongly suspect there is probably a whole other secret military service with weaponry straight out of science fiction.  No I have not seen a UFO but I can put two and two together:

That McKinnon hacker from Great Britain who uncovered the list of "non-terrestrial naval officers and men" is going to be extradited to the US where he will likely be thrown in a cell and if he's lucky forgotten about.

Eyewitness reports of the triangular UFO's; one that comes to mind is a rancher in Texas had a triangle hover near him, he looked up and saw markings in English denoting an escape hatch.

An astronomer has converted a telescope and a HD camcorder with a laser(don't know how) to record many objects that look... very roughly... like space stations and starships.

All the high strangeness at Area 51.

So, for argument's sake, lets accept a secret part of the government has a Stargate level space program of ships and weapons, and its not being directed at Earth-yet.  Where are they being directed at-currently?

Do the men and women serving in the "non terrrestrial" fleet listen to Alex Jones?

[Unintelligable Name]

So, for argument's sake, lets accept a secret part of the government has a Stargate level space program of ships and weapons, and its not being directed at Earth-yet.  Where are they being directed at-currently?

I haven't the faintest idea. Same thing goes for the speculated superpower Mind-control and Terminator robots... if these technologies exist and are as powerful as rumors lead us to believe... what're they waiting for? When will the Cabal with the Deathstar, hold Earth at ransom? Waiting for computer/AI autonomy? Wouldn't they have that already? Speculation doesn't yield much of anything... it really doesn't add up if we stay under this assumption.

[J. Croft]

Chemicalrain 
Insert Quote
Quote from: J. Croft on Today at 12:21:44 PM
So, for argument's sake, lets accept a secret part of the government has a Stargate level space program of ships and weapons, and its not being directed at Earth-yet.  Where are they being directed at-currently?

I haven't the faintest idea. Same thing goes for the speculated superpower Mind-control and Terminator robots... if these technologies exist and are as powerful as rumors lead us to believe... what're they waiting for? When will the Cabal with the Deathstar, hold Earth at ransom? Waiting for computer/AI autonomy? Wouldn't they have that already? Speculation doesn't yield much of anything... it really doesn't add up if we stay under this assumption.

Using logic, if all those weapons they do/may/might have aren't being directed at US... since they're still using B2 bombers, JDAMS, M1 tanks, Apache gunships and M-4 carbines... if all the really cool stuff isn't directed at US then who is it being directed AT?  Or is it being directed at perhaps other governments?  WE.  DON'T.  KNOW.

Is there an external threat to Earth?  That's officially out of Alex Jones territory, I know but...

But as for US, all of those weapons, even the star wars weapons have a weakness; they need targeting.  That's what the control grid is being set up for, but as we're seeing the enemy is losing.  He's slipping, things aren't going quite to plan.  I think the chaos the inbreeds are unleashing is going to backfire on them horribly.  Horribly to us as well, but they're not getting out of this.

So, avoid tightly packed formations, and crowds when in military operations.  I think being in a manned fighter is going to be a suicide mission now.  We'll have drones and robot hunter-killer machines like in the Terminator movies but nothing's invincible. There's a LOT of knowledge out there, lots of resources.  And of course, a better way to fight is to attack weakness, not strength.

Do you know the greatest weapon we have?  Our NON-COOPERATION. 

Don't participate in the digital economy.

Grow your own food.

Be part of a survival network.

Be your city councilman's nightmare opposing everything he and his corrupt cronies do-even better to organize recall elections and sweep them out of their beloved offices.

Learn how to shoot.

Awaken others.

Debt repudiation.

Barter, use local script, gold and silver, trade items and avoid the cashless control grid.

Non-violent resistance; general strikes, mass tax non compliance, mass legal code non compliance so long as you don't commit mala en se crimes.

No battlestars they got can go up against an entire planet throwing off their chains.

[Unintelligable Name]

But as for US, all of those weapons, even the star wars weapons have a weakness; they need targeting.

True.

Overall great post.

/tisphat

[Monkeypox]

$200 online stores, very powerful ones comin' out now, torch size.

http://www.novalasers.com/ these guys had the record for the biggest laser ever made.

Some idiot shines one of those in your face and you've got permanent eye damage.

I wonder why they haven't been made illegal for the general public to buy in this nanny state of ours?

[Neo]

When you're bankrupt, you've got to maintain the illusion with some form of military dictatorship.