What Ever Happened to the THEL?

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I remember around 14 years ago that the THEL was successfully fired against some kind of mortor round(I think it was a mortor round) and successfully destroyed it in midflight along its curvlinear trajectory. That was at least 12-14 years ago as I recall. And since then, its been deafeningly quiet about anti-aerieal-target lasers.
Did we throw it all away like we did with the ABL? Another irksome project cancellation.....
 
Project ended. Not practical. MTHEL got killed as well IIRC.
 
The logistics of fueling the thing in the field was an issue.
The ABL cancellation was more of a Gates vs. USAF thing.
 

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