5 Gigawatt Solar powered Airship with anti missile laser defense. Phased Array Radar and optical array hybrid targeting system .
Shooting downward not only shortens the range to the target missile at apogee but reduces the energy requirements further more by having a shorer beam at higher altitude where air is less dense. This system should also works well against ballistic missiles falling from above in space for example from Iran. In which case the laser fires upward toward a vacuum environment where there is an even further reduced air density medium to convercome.
