London, Dec 24: If reports are to be believed, after assuming office, US President-elect Barack Obama's administration may cancel funding for a new technology to be used in a US warplane that fires lasers at the enemy, in a bid to save costs in a recession hit economy.
Known as the Airborne Laser (ABL) weapons programme, the system aims to send an invisible, ultra-powerful laser beam from aircraft hundreds of miles from their targets, and could one day alter the nature of aerial warfare.