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News release: Airborne Laser Test Bed Exercise Conducted. Missile Defense
Agency (MDA), Oct. 21, 2010.
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发帖数: 5601 | 2 October 21, 2010
Airborne Laser Test Bed Exercise Conducted
The Missile Defense Agency conducted a planned exercise of the Airborne
Laser Test Bed (ALTB) this morning (late evening Pacific Daylight Time) at
the Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center-Weapons Division Sea Range off the
central California coast. The objective of this mission was for the ALTB to
destroy a solid-fuel, short-range ballistic missile while its rocket motors
were still thrusting.
The Terrier Black Brant target missile was launched successfully.
Preliminary indications are that the system acquired and tracked the plume (
rocket exhaust) of the target, but never transitioned to active tracking.
Therefore, the high energy lasing did not occur.
Program officials will conduct an investigation to determine the cause of
the transition failure. The intermittent performance of a valve within the
laser system is being examined. |
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