Boeing 747 laser gun the starwars Jumbo

the best jumbo, star wars is coming, the high energy weapon mounted in the laser might change the future of aviation weaponry for ever.
More advanced than the best air to air missile traveling at 300,000km/s light will be the fastest weapon in the sky, with a range of several hundred it promise to revolutionize aerial warfare.

This might not be the most agile aircraft in the sky, niether has agile and fast AAMs but this has the most advanced weapon in the sky, a laser designed to kill incoming ballistic missiles, this weapon can be the future of aviation laser armed aircraf, for the moment such weapons are huge as the first computers but in future years these weapons might replace missiles and guns.

Who knows if this thing can kill hypersonic ballistic missiles this weapons will be able to kill hordes of enemy fighters at long distance just by aiming the laser and killing them.
The YAL-1A has a laser capable of killing hypersonic balistic misilles at several hundreds kilometers.
This laser virtually using light just needs to aim and destroy it`s target, it only needs 3 or 5 seconds of bursting the target to eliminate it.

This aircraft still is years away from it`s operational debut, but by 2012 this new weapon will be operational.