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To: TimF who wrote (93)	11/6/2002 5:15:48 PM
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Army Shoots Down Artillery Shell with Laser Tue Nov 5, 4:44 PM ET By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army used a high-energy laser to shoot down an artillery shell in mid-flight on Tuesday in a defense industry breakthrough, the Army and the manufacturer said. The Army and TRW Inc, which developed the weapon, said in a joint statement that the laser tracked, locked onto and fired a burst of concentrated light energy photons at the speeding shell over the White Sands test range in New Mexico. "Seconds later, at a point well short of its intended destination, the projectile was destroyed," the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command said... story.news.yahoo.com