Nation IN BRIEF : NEW MEXICO : Laser Shoots Down Armed Rocket in Test
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Scientists for the first time used a ground-based laser to shoot down an armed, short-range rocket of the type used by guerrillas, the Army said. The U.S.-Israeli test, conducted at the White Sands Missile Range, involved a deuterium fluoride laser, whose light is invisible to the naked eye, the Army said. The system is supposed to spot a rocket in flight, fire a laser and destroy the rocket before it hits its target.
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