在对付空对空和空对地导弹的试验中,五枚从VoughtA-7上发射的AIM-9响尾蛇导弹全部被装在波音NKC-135飞机上机载实验室内的400千瓦二氧化碳激光器所摧毁。早在1973年,美国空军武器实验室,就把地面激光器与精确定位和跟踪系统结合起来摧毁了飞行中的靶机和直升飞机。最近,该实验室又研制了一种工作在1.3微米波长的氧化碘激光器,该激光器的波长约为目前安装在KC-135飞机内的二氧化碳激光器系统波长的八分之一。这种新型激光器（装置）在目标上吸收的能量能增加一个数量级,这就使激光器对防空应用具有吸引力。因此,这些激光器明显的具有军用潜力可以作为空间用的武器以击落来袭弹头,或者装备在飞机L和舰艇上来各自对付地对空或空对地导弹。激光器杀伤的光通量辐射到目标几乎 In tests against air to air and air-to-surface missiles, five AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles fired from the Vought A-7 were all destroyed by a 400-kilowatt CO2 laser mounted onboard the Boeing NKC-135 aircraft . As early as 1973, the United States Air Force’s weapons laboratory combined surface lasers with precision positioning and tracking systems to destroy the in-flight target aircraft and helicopters. More recently, the lab has developed an iodine-iodide laser operating at 1.3-micron wavelength, which is about one-eighth the wavelength of the currently available carbon dioxide laser system installed in the KC-135 aircraft. The new laser (device) absorbs energy on the target by an order of magnitude, making lasers attractive for air defense applications. Therefore, these lasers clearly have the military potential to be used as space weapons to shoot down incoming warheads, or to equip aircraft L and naval ships to deal with surface-to-air or air-to-surface missiles. Lasers of laser light radiate to the target almost