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Boeing: positive result for the laser mirror

Seattle, USA - A contract for a value of USD 20 million

Boeing and USAF, inventors of the dell’Aerospace Relay Mirror System (ARMS), have announced to have achieved a successful with the experiment led in the Kirtland Air Force Base, in New Mexico, about the possibility to drive a laser ray towards a target. The test could take to the development of an ARMS installable on blimp, aircraft or space vehicles to destroy ballistic missiles or other targets t...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 146885
Rome, Italy, 08/11/2006 16:56
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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