TALWS.

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An item from the Internet web site The Aviationist of interest.

THIS WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE POSSIBLE EVER!

Airborne tactical laser system able toknock anenemy missileout of the sky.

"Lockheed Martin Releases New Animation of F-16s Using Tactical Airborne Laser Pod"

Tactical Airborne Laser Weapon System (TALWS), 

“Tactical Airborne Laser Pods are Coming”. An interesting new video has just been released by Lockheed Martin. Focusing on the Tactical Airborne Laser Weapon System (TALWS), the animation shows F-16s equipped with laser pods cooperate with a Boeing KC-46 Pegasus equipped tactical infrared sensors able to passively detect and track threats. Once the tanker (a High-Value Aerial Asset that can be targeted by several different threats) detects an incoming missile, it passes its position to the two Vipers that can use their the beam director in their pod to put high-energy light on-target and keep it there with high precision to defeat the threat."

AT THIS STAGE TALWS STRICTLY [?] ANIMATION.

See previous blog entry with a number of additional embedded links the status and future of the airborne directed energy weaponry the opinion of the experts less than sanguine:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2020/07/zap-ii.html

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