It is removing the baseball-size tips from its Sidewinder heat-seeking missiles and installing a low-power laser in those tips.

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The countermove the Pentagon has on order requires affixing under each chopper a 50-pound basketball-size turret that uses a low-power laser to jam and deflect incoming missiles.

FORBES: Light Warfare

It would not start with the proposed test of the MIRACL laser against the third Miniature Sensor Technology Integration (MSTI-3) satellite. (For that matter, these assets were used in an inconclusive low-power laser test last April.) And it assuredly would not stop if the Clinton Administration chooses not to conduct the high-power experiment now being proposed by the Army.

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With this early model, the laser had to be set on low power to stop the plastic overheating, or even catching fire.

ECONOMIST: Recycling