Airborne Laser Program Dumped After 16 Years and Billions Spent in Development
Well, there went billions of dollars of our tax money.
By Madison Ruppert
February 22, 2012
For the past sixteen or so years, the United States military has been developing a 747 jumbo jet outfitted with a laser so powerful it can actually shoot missiles out of the air mid-flight.
While this – and so many other projects being developed by our military – seem like complete science fiction, indeed the Airborne Laser Test Bed (ALTB) was actually being worked on for quite some time.
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