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An engineer adjusts a mirror in the "wall of fire," a zigzag-shaped optical path used by the Airborne Laser Test Bed's missile-killing high energy laser, during a test at the Lockheed Martin facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., in 2003. The "wall of fire" was part of the 6,100-pound beam transfer assembly, installed in the Airborne Laser Test Bed aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
 
'Star Wars' meets reality? Military testing laser weapons
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Are we finally witnessing the dawn of the "death ray"? Military commanders are on the verge of being able to fire laser blasts from the air. Read more
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