PILOTS BEGIN LASER TRAINING

Pilots at New Mexico’s Kirtland Air Force Base don’t have planes equipped with ray guns — yet. But they’ll soon have a new, F-​​16 sim­u­la­tor, to help them prac­tice for the day that they do.
“The F-​​16 model is a smaller ver­sion of the air­borne laser weapon already under devel­op­ment for use on a Boeing 747 for shoot­ing down mis­siles,” says the Albuquerque Tribune. “It could be ready for use in 2012, but before that hap­pens, pilots will test the sys­tem in the sim­u­la­tor to see how use­ful it is and sug­gest ways it could be improved to help them in combat.”

June 23rd, 2003 | Uncategorized | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.