An advanced technology laser cannon to fend off nuclear missiles
The competition of advanced weapon development is still sharp and has many hot issue. The US Air Force is researching about advanced weapon that able to fend off the missiles attack. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s missile hunting laser weapon is once again battling its way back from the boneyard thanks to the “emerging” advanced missile threat on the Korean peninsula.
The House Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces panel is asking for roughly $75 million in next year’s Pentagon budget to keep the Airborne Advanced Laser program intact just in case North Korea turns out to have an intercontinental ballistic missile that works. This is the concern of US Air Force to make that advanced weapon as soon as possible.
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The House Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces panel is asking for roughly $75 million in next year’s Pentagon budget to keep the Airborne Advanced Laser program intact just in case North Korea turns out to have an intercontinental ballistic missile that works. This is the concern of US Air Force to make that advanced weapon as soon as possible.
The laser weapon generally take place on the ground, but this project focused to make an advanced technology of laser weapon that could be carried on a military plane. It mean that the advanced laser weapon could be carried anywhere as it needed. The Airborne technology Laser, or ABL, is a hulking Boeing 747 equipped with a massive laser cannon, dreamed up by the missile defense agency to blast boosting missiles out of the sky. It served as a symbol for the bleeding edge of missile defense and weapons technology for a time.
It will be need some serious test to make the project succeed and will cost greatly. After a brief flirtation with success in 2011, the ABL failed to knock a missile out of the sky during its second testit will be. After several billion dollars invested into the program, the MDA had an aircraft that didn’t work most of the time. In February, facing mounting pressure to slash wasteful military spending advanced programs, the MDA announced that the ABL had flown its final test.
This, of course, piles further absurdity on top of the idea that the ABL would be a potent defense against missile threats. For its part, the DPRK seems to be getting worse at building rockets--its latest rocket test failed at an even earlier stage than its botched 2011 launch. If the Strategic Forces subcommittee lands the funds it has asked for and resurrects the ABL (again), the U.S. may end up hunting missiles that don’t function with an airborne laser cannon that doesn’t work. Well, just try the best.
