If any of you “EXPERTS” had bothered to check the facts… 😡 😡
you would have found out the the ABL is NOT an air-to-surface weapon or and Anti-ICBM system.
‘ATL can produce both lethal and non-lethal effects, supporting missions on the battlefield and in urban operations. It can destroy, damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage. As a directed energy weapon, the Advanced Tactical Laser is complementary to the Airborne Laser (ABL), which Boeing is developing for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency to destroy ballistic missiles in their boost phase of flight. ABL consists of a megawatt-class chemical laser mounted on a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft.
“ATL will do for air-to-ground combat what ABL will do for missile defense: revolutionize the battlefield,” said Pat Shanahan, Boeing Missile Defense Systems vice president and general manager. “ATL will give the warfighter a speed-of-light, precision engagement capability and avoid the kind of collateral damage sometimes associated with such traditional weapons as bombs and missiles.”‘
Source:
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2006/q1/060123a_nr.html
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