02/12/2010
Airborne Laser Shoots Down Missile
A Boeing 747-400 equipped with the airborne laser shot down "a super-heated, basketball-size beam that traveled 670 million mph to incinerate a missile that was moving 4,000 mph, the Pentagon said." Continue reading for the news report.
It took just a few seconds for the beam to create a stress fracture in the missile, triggering it to split into pieces.[via LATimes]
