{"id":3820,"date":"2010-02-16T00:35:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T08:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2010-02-15T20:10:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T04:10:11","slug":"air-force-747-shoots-down-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/16\/air-force-747-shoots-down-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force 747 Shoots Down Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123190368\">Air Force announced<\/a> that the YAL-1, or Airborne Laser, had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/02\/ap_laser_test_021210w\/\">successfully intercepted<\/a> a representative ballistic missile in the boost phase, proving the concept of\u00a0an aircraft based, directed energy anti-ballistic missile weapon system.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mda.mil\/news\/gallery_altb.html\">Pictures and video<\/a> are available at the official site of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mda.mil\/news\/10news0002.html\">Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the historic strategic\u00a0bombers, the YAL-1, which is a\u00a0highly modified\u00a0Boeing 747-400,\u00a0is the largest aircraft to ever demonstrate an offensive &#8220;air to air&#8221; capability and is the only one to use directed energy to achieve a kinetic purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Fighter pilot perspective:\u00a0 If it can bring down a missile at range like that, imagine what it could do to bombers, fighters, UAVs, or even a variety of select ground targets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force announced that the YAL-1, or Airborne Laser, had successfully intercepted a representative ballistic missile in the boost phase, proving the concept of\u00a0an aircraft based, directed energy anti-ballistic missile weapon system.\u00a0 Pictures and video are available at the official site of the Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency. Notwithstanding the historic strategic\u00a0bombers, the YAL-1, which is a\u00a0highly modified\u00a0Boeing [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,13,210,2],"class_list":["post-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-laser","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}