Just watched Future Weapons on Discovery--this episode had directed energy weapons. I'm such a junkie for this stuff. Anyway, they had a demonstration of the EMP simulator @ Hollomon AFB in Alamogordo, NM (White Sands Missile Range) and then they had a test firing of the prototype for the CO2 laser (45kW output) and stuff about the Airborne Laser--it's built and spec'd and designed by Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM 