# Posted 6:48 AM by Patrick Belton
LASER WEAPON DOWNS INCOMING MISSILE IN TEST:
This is very neat. Earlier versions of the
Tactical High Energy Laser have been dogged by, among other problems, the need to keep the laser beam tightly focused on a particular point on a generally quickly-moving target. At a time when we've grown used to repeated test failures in missile defence technology, contractor
Northrup Grumman deserves congratulations for producing a system which has to date shot down 28 operational, captured katyusha rockets; and this is particularly the case with the recent escalation of hostilities along the
Shabaa Farms portion of the Israel-Lebanon border.
(And plus, it's just really cool, too.)
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