of the United States' military airborne laser and advanced tactical laser programs. On February 11, 2010, this weapon was successfully deployed to shoot down a missile off the central California coast in a test conducted with a laser aboard a Boeing 747 that took off from the Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center (for more details, see Boeing YAL-1). Other iodine based lasers All gas-phase iodine laser (AGIL) is a similar construction using all-gas reagents, more suitable for aerospace applications. The ElectricOIL, or EOIL, offers the same iodine lasing species in an alternate gas-electric hybrid variant. See also Peresvet (laser weapon) List of laser articles References External links Popular Science: The Flying Laser Cannon Patent for the 'High energy airborne chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL)' 'Laser jumbo' testing moves ahead Chemical lasers American inventions