Tactical Laser Testing Cut Short Again

By Dan Dupont / August 15, 2000 at 5:00 AM
The Army is assessing what went wrong during a test yesterday of a tactical laser weapon under development for Israel. The service tried for the second time to shoot down multiple rockets using the Tactical High Energy Laser but was unable to do so because of a problem with an image processing component, according to service sources. Program officials planned to assess the problem today and hoped to try again tomorrow provided a fix is found and implemented, these sources...

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