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Missile Defense Watch: U.S. Missile Defense Agency Rolls Out the Airborne Laser (ABL) Aircraft

Boeing Airborne Laser Team Rolls Out Modified Aircraft and Prepares for Flight Tests

The Boeing Company (NYSE: BANews) along with industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, rolled out the Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft today from a modification facility in Wichita, Kan., during a ceremony marking major program achievements on several fronts.

Boeing presented the aircraft to a crowd of hundreds of government customers, industry partners and Boeing employees gathered at its Integrated Defense Systems facilities in Wichita.

Details of the Airborne Laser (ABL) are here.

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Another part of the TRIAD of United States Missile Defense rolls out and is nearer to deployment. This time it is Boast Phase Defense Segment.

Remarks by Lt Gen Obering at the Airborne Laser Rollout Celebration are here.

The Missile Defense Agency website is here.

9/11 is still very fresh on our minds … non-state actors and terrorists have shown they wish to do us and our country great harm. They only seek improved means to hasten our destruction. The news from North Korea and Iran has been consistently bleak. Their denunciations of the United Sates have been vitriolic, and to the extent they have been able, they have pursued programs to develop, test, and arm ballistic missiles of increasingly long range with lethal payloads.

There is also the issue of proliferation … either between individual states, or between states and their proxies, such as Hezbollah. Sometimes these transactions are done for ideological reasons, as seems to be the case with Iran. Sometimes they are purely for cash, as seems to be the case with North Korea. The end result, however, is the same … weapons of potentially great destruction in the wrong hands … hands that might be hard to see until the last moment.

The “why” is also about the revolutionary technology you are developing that has the potential to change the nature of warfare. You are developing a system that can interdict a threat missile in its boost phase, at a stage when every second counts … a system that the adversary cannot outrun.

The continuing development and deployment of the various segments of American Missile Defense should give non-state terrorist organizations and countries pause on a missile attack against the United States.

Stay tuned……

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