[CPEO-MEF] Laser systems against UXO & IEDs

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Boeing Conducts Successful Avenger-Mounted Laser Tests
Innovative system neutralizes IEDs, unexploded ordnance

WEBWIRE - Monday, October 15, 2007

ST. LOUIS.- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has successfully demonstrated 
that its Avenger-mounted laser system can neutralize the kinds of 
improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance (UXO) that 
threaten U.S. troops deployed in war zones.

During laser firings Sept. 26-27 at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, 
Ala., the Laser Avenger engaged and destroyed five targets representing 
IED and UXO threats. Laser Avenger, equipped with a 1-kilowatt 
solid-state laser, proved its effectiveness at ranges that allowed the 
system to be operated at safe distances from the target. During the 
test, the system also took a step toward demonstrating a 
counter-unmanned aerial vehicle capability by destroying two small 
unmanned aerial vehicles that were stationary on the ground.

Laser Avenger is a Boeing-funded initiative to show that directed energy 
weapons are relevant to today’s battlefield and are ready to be fielded. 
Boeing developed the system in only eight months, underscoring the 
company’s ability to rapidly respond to warfighters’ needs.

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For the entire release, see
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel_print.asp?aId=50220

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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