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U.S. Plans I: Pentagon Delays Airborne Laser Tests The Pentagon plans to delay a previously planned shoot-down test of the U.S. Airborne Laser system because of weight problems on the Boeing 747 that houses the system, a senior defense official said this week (see GSN, Aug. 12). “We’re still assessing … the fourth quarter of calendar year 2004 as being the shoot-down time frame,” said Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish, head of the Missile Defense Agency. The test of the system’s lethal capacity was originally scheduled for 2003, but documents submitted to Congress in February by the Defense Department indicate that the test is now planned for the end of 2004. “Basically, the problem we have with the Airborne Last is not that it’s carrying too much stuff, but in one part of the airplane it has too much weight,” Kadish said, referring to the back of the aircraft, which holds the lasers (Laura Colarusso, Inside the Air Force, Nov. 1).
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