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The
Boeing YAL-1
is a
missile defense
weapons system consisting of a megawatt-class
chemical oxygen iodine laser
(COIL) mounted inside a modified
Boeing 747-400F
. It was intended to destroy
tactical ballistic missiles
while in their
boost phase
. Only one YAL-1 was produced, and the program was canceled in December 2011; the aircraft made its first flight on July 18, 2002, and its last on February 14, 2012.
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Missile Defense Agency
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