Mirror system
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. — A dual-mirror system, called the Aerospace Relay Mirror System, suspended from a crane at 100 feet above the ground, is being tested here. The system is a prototype designed to extend the range of high-energy lasers by receiving and redirecting laser energy. Developed at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate, an operational version might be suspended from a high-altitude airship at an altitude of 70,000 feet, where atmospheric turbulence, or jitter, is less of a problem for beam quality. (Air Force photo)