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Boeing YAL-1

The Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser, is a laser weapon installed on board of a Boeing 747-400F.

It's a system considered essencial to make a "Anti-Missile system" of the United States, because these aircraft have the capacity to destroy ballistic missiles in long ranges, yet in the launching of these missiles. Besides the defensive capacity, these airships operating a laser cannon, have a strategig offensive capacity, because they could realize high precizion atacks, with low level of side effects, in most of times, it could be negated by the atacker, because there won't would be indications of who could have commited the atack, different of what could occur with bombs or missiles.

See Also

Beriev A-60

Boeing 747

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