Age of Airborne Lasers Upon Us (Video)

-[OnlyInPhiladelphia.com]- The Age of Airborne Lasers has truly become a reality for the United States military. The video contains a Liveleak.com video of a laser system mounted to the front of a modified 747 jet spotting and shooting down a ballistic missile in under 2 minutes!

“While ballistic missiles like the one [the Airborne Laser Tested] destroyed move at speeds of about 4,000 miles per hour, they are no match for a super-heated, high-energy laser beam racing towards it at 670 million mph,” says defense contractor Northrop Grumman in a release after announcing the successful test on Friday.

For more information, please visit the U.S. Air Force

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