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YAL-1 Airborne Laser (ABL) in Flight

In mid-December 1999, aircraft number 1238, a bare bones 747-400 Freighter, rolled off the Boeing Co. assembly line in Everett, Wash. Slightly more than a month later, on Jan. 22, 2000, the aircraft was flown to the Boeing Modification Center in Wichita, Kan. By then it had acquired a name -- prototYpe Attack Laser model 1-A (YAL-1A) -- and a new number -- 00-0001 -- designating it the first military aircraft of the new millennium. Boeing is the prime contractor for ABL, which will provide a speed-of-light capability to destroy all classes of ballistic missiles in their boost phase of flight.
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Unique identifier BI217116 
Boeing ID 032006 
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Size 5600px × 4400px   70MB 
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