WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Boeing announced Monday that the Airborne Laser successfully activated a high-energy laser through its beam control/fire control system last week.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Russia's front-line long-range strategic nuclear bombers have carried out a new series of major weeklong exercises, the Russian air force announced last week.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Boeing and Northrop Grumman last week announced the successful test-firing of a high-energy chemical laser for the first time on board the Airborne Laser aircraft.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Boeing has won a new $36 million U.S. Army contract to push ahead with its work on creating a new mobile, high-energy laser weapon system to knock out incoming rockets, artillery shells and mortar rounds.

WASHINGTON, July 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Missile Defense Agency Friday carried out what it described as a successful systems test to track an intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with countermeasures with several advanced radars.

WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- The Kremlin will withdraw its offer to allow the United States to jointly operate with Russia radar stations for ballistic missile defense in southern Russia and Azerbaijan if Washington pushes ahead with deploying missile defense systems against ICBMs in Central Europe, a senior Russian general said last week.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Boeing said in a statement last week that with its industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency it achieved a milestone for the Airborne Laser missile defense program with the installation of all six chemical oxygen iodine laser modules on the ABL aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Boeing said Jan. 7 it had replied to a MDA request for industry feedback on the follow-on GMD program.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. companies Boeing and Northrop Grumman have completed time-saving procedures and tests on the Airborne Laser.