ALTB and FEL – Two Sides of the Same Coin

The Missile Defense Agency’s Airborne Laser Test Bed (ALTB) program has been cancelled due to budgetary and congressional influences. ALTB was a far-out directed-energy beam missile defense interceptor and in 2010 successfully zapped a test missile from the sky resulting in an additional $40 million in project funding. However, ALTB was almost 16 years behind [...]