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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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,...
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    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...
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    Airbus and Boeing Related development Boeing YAL-1 Boeing 747-8 747 Supertanker Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Boeing 777-300ER Airbus...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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)...
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    laser List of laser articles Advanced tactical laser Airborne laser Boeing YAL-1 High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) Skyguard Peresvet...
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  • 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 –...
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    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...
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    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...
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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...
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    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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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Boeing 737 Next Generation: line number 6082 Boeing P-8 Poseidon: line number 6020 Boeing 747-8: line number 1534 Boeing 767: line number 1102 Boeing...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • (cancelled) Boeing Model 908-909 Boeing 953 Boeing 2707 (cancelled) Boeing YAL-1 Boeing A7-BAO Boeing AT-3 Boeing B-9 Boeing XB-15 Boeing B-17 Flying...
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    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...
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    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...
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    when a Black Brant IX sounding rocket was launched as a target for the Boeing YAL-1 airborne-laser platform. On 11 January, China conducted an ABM test,...
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    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...
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    Instrumentation Aircraft, 1994-2001 Boeing EC-18B Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft, 1994-2001 Boeing YAL-1, 2002-2006 Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global...
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