The High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator or HEL MD is back in Huntsville after more than a year of testing at White Sands Missile Range’s High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility in New Mexico. The Space and Missile Defense Command/Armed Forces Strategic Command is the program sponsor of the HEL MD demonstrator, which is not yet a program of record.
The high powered defense laser was built by Boeing and has recently returned home to Huntsville for an upgrade.
The truck based system currently has a 10 KW solid state laser mounted on a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, but will soon be fitted with a 50 KW laser.
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