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Spacepope From Vatican City, joined Dec 1999, 2736 posts, RR: 1
Posted (6 years 11 months 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 2209 times:

With all the hullabaloo going on in DPRK right now with the possible missle and whatnot, where is the YAL-1 now, and how advanced is the program? Enough to take a pot-shot in the boost phase yet?

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Thorny From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (6 years 11 months 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 2194 times:

Quoting Spacepope (Thread starter):
With all the hullabaloo going on in DPRK right now with the possible missle and whatnot, where is the YAL-1 now, and how advanced is the program? Enough to take a pot-shot in the boost phase yet?

No, the tracking and pointing system is still being installed at Wichita. The laser itself won't be installed (at Edwards) until 2007.

TedTAce From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (6 years 11 months 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 2166 times:

Here is a good link I googled:
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/abl.htm

LT-AWACS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (6 years 11 months 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 2161 times:

As THorny noted it is in Wichita at the moment. The offices at Edwards, Seattle and New Mexico are also working hard on the project.

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Oroka From Canada, joined Dec 2006, 787 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (6 years 11 months 4 hours ago) and read 2077 times:

Last I heard the program took a really big budget hit and was almost being put on the back burner.

Thorny From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (6 years 11 months 4 hours ago) and read 2075 times:

Quoting Oroka (Reply 4):
Last I heard the program took a really big budget hit and was almost being put on the back burner.

I suspect the current events in North Korea will go a long way toward pushing the ABL back to the funding front-burner...

Oroka From Canada, joined Dec 2006, 787 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (6 years 11 months 4 hours ago) and read 2074 times:

Dunno, it was fairly recent that this happened, well into the N Korea threat. I will have to go digging for where I read this.

Thorny From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (6 years 11 months 4 hours ago) and read 2071 times:

Quoting Oroka (Reply 6):
Dunno, it was fairly recent that this happened, well into the N Korea threat. I will have to go digging for where I read this.

No, YAL-1 fell on funding hard times when the Air Force budget started getting pinched excessively a couple of years ago because of the war in Iraq.

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