Boeing destroys UAV with Laser

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Subject: Boeing destroys UAV with Laser
neiyold 11/19/2009 4:10:55 PM

It looks like Boeing continues to up the ante: Boeing Laser Systems Destroy Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Tests ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Nov. 18, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] in May demonstrated the ability of mobile laser weapon systems to perform a unique mission: track and destroy small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Shown here, a UAV is hit by the high-energy laser beam of the Boeing-developed Mobile Active Targeting Resource for Integrated eXperiments (MATRIX). ###

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neiyold Here is the link and a photo 11/19/2009 4:21:38 PM

Here is a link:

http://boeing.mediaroom.com/in...

I cannot seem to insert the photo, sorry.

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neiyold And a second link 11/19/2009 4:23:11 PM

And I will probably have several duplicate posts after this one... brain is slowing down...

Shoot Down by Laser:

Boeing announced... Nov. 18 that it had conducted a successful test in May of the Mobile Active Targeting Resource for Integrated eXperiments (MATRIX), which used a single, high-brightness laser beam to track and destroy five unmanned aerial vehicles at various ranges. The company, which has been developing MATRIX under contract to the Air Force Research Lab, conducted the tests at China Lake in California. Bill Baker, chief scientist for AFRL's Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland AFB, N.M., said, "These tests validate the use of directed energy to negate potential hostile threats against the homeland." He added that the work on MATRIX would "pay major dividends for the warfighter now and in the years ahead." Boeing official Gary Fitzmire called the tests a directed-energy "breakthrough," in which MATRIX "demonstrated unprecedented, ultra-precise, and lethal acquisition, pointing and tracking at long ranges using relatively low laser power."

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