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...

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...

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...

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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)...

missiles. One such example is the Boeing Airborne Laser, constructed inside a Boeing 747 and designated as the YAL-1. This system was designed to eliminate...

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are tested aboard wide-bodies, as in the laser weapons testing on the Boeing YAL-1. Other wide-body aircraft are used as flying research stations, such...

directed-energy weapon concepts were shelved. However, Boeing has been somewhat successful with the Boeing YAL-1 and Boeing NC-135, the first of which destroyed two...

the Missile Defense Agency. This aircraft serves as a target for the Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser Testbed. A G-IIB (N779LC, cn 88) has been modified with...

with a laser aboard a Boeing 747 that took off from the Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center (for more details, see Boeing YAL-1). All gas-phase iodine...

Related development: Beriev A-60 Ilyushin Il-76 Comparable systems: Boeing NC-135 Boeing YAL-1 Podvig, Pavel (13 November 2012). "Russia to resume work on airborne...

program, allocating no funding for it in its later budget submission. Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser (ABL) – Team ABL proposed and won the contract for this...

was reactivated in 2006 and performed ground and flight testing on the Boeing YAL-1A until 2010, before that program was cancelled. Established in 1989...

system for this use would be an airborne laser, which was tested on the Boeing YAL-1 and was later cancelled. Other ideas are also being studied. As of 2009...

Gulf War, the concept of an anti-missile laser was revitalized in the Boeing YAL-1 airborne laser program. In 1974, the Air Force Test and Evaluation Center...

the Russian Armed Forces on June 1, 2001, was replaced by the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces starting December 1, 2011, but was reestablished as a...

2002, Proteus carried a 30-foot-long (9.1 m) pod which served as a target for development of the Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser system. The pod housed an...

revenues." McCain supports ending the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, the Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser, and the Boeing and Science Applications International...

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the wing began standing Strategic Air Command nuclear alerts. The first Boeing B-52G Stratofortress jet bomber was delivered to the wing on 13 February...

Instrumentation Aircraft, 1994-2001 Boeing EC-18B Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft, 1994-2001 Boeing YAL-1, 2002-2006 Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global...

when the British started a joint numbering system in 1912 serial number 1 was used by the Royal Navy, the Army started at 201. Aircraft was unregistered...

Technology; Air War College; Air University; Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama; PG12 [1] Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback Machine Paromtchik, I. E. (2006). "Optical...

solid-state laser is desired over chemical lasers, like the one used in Boeing's previous YAL-1 Airborne Laser Testbed, because there is a shorter logistical tail...