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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t know the details of this control system, but clearly these controls guys are on it:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.army.mil/article/116793/Army_tests_vehicle_mounted_laser_against_multiple_targets/">http://www.army.mil/article/116793/Army_tests_vehicle_mounted_laser_against_multiple_targets/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3D3D3D;background:#F7F7F7'>WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. (Dec. 11, 2013) -- The Army used a vehicle-mounted high-energy laser for the first time to successfully engage more than 90 mortar rounds and several unmanned aerial vehicles in flight.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3D3D3D'><br><br><span style='background:#F7F7F7'>The Army High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator, or HEL MD, underwent multiple test events between Nov. 18 and Dec. 10, at White Sands Missile Range.</span><br><br><span style='background:#F7F7F7'>This was the first full-up demonstration of the HEL MD in the configuration that included the laser and beam director mounted in the vehicle, according to officials of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command. They said a surrogate radar, the Enhanced Multi Mode Radar, supported the engagement by queuing the laser.<span class=apple-converted-space> …<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3D3D3D;background:#F7F7F7'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If they can track a mortar round, then they can keep a laser focused on a launch vehicle. And if they can build one of these, they can build many, and focus them all on the launcher. So now if we can get a launch vehicle that can take the heat and turn it into thrust, Keith’s vision of low cost launching becomes reality.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>