YAL-1

airborne laser demonstrator aircraft by Boeing
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YAL-1
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YAL-1

Summary

YAL-1 is an aircraft model[1]. YAL-1 ranks in the top 5% of aircraft_model entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (487 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • YAL-1's image is recorded as YAL-1A Airborne Laser unstowed crop.jpg[3].
  • YAL-1's instance of is recorded as aircraft model[4].
  • YAL-1's operator is recorded as United States Air Force[5].
  • YAL-1's manufacturer is recorded as Boeing Defense, Space & Security[6].
  • YAL-1's manufacturer is recorded as Northrop Grumman Corporation[7].
  • YAL-1's manufacturer is recorded as Lockheed Martin[8].
  • YAL-1's developer is recorded as Boeing[9].
  • YAL-1's subclass of is recorded as Boeing 747-400F[10].
  • YAL-1's subclass of is recorded as military airplane[11].
  • YAL-1's Commons category is recorded as Boeing YAL-1[12].
  • YAL-1's country of origin is recorded as United States[13].
  • YAL-1's powered by is recorded as General Electric CF6-80C2[14].
  • YAL-1's has part is recorded as chemical oxygen iodine laser[15].
  • YAL-1's first flight is recorded as +2002-07-18T00:00:00Z[16].
  • YAL-1's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 32.15483333333333, 'lon': -110.84194444444444}[17].
  • YAL-1's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/015pry[18].
  • YAL-1's service retirement is recorded as +2014-09-25T00:00:00Z[19].
  • YAL-1's military designation is recorded as YAL-1A[20].
  • YAL-1's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Boeing YAL-1[21].
  • YAL-1's Commons gallery is recorded as YAL-1 Airborne Laser[22].
  • YAL-1's total produced is recorded as {'amount': '+1'}[23].
  • YAL-1's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11570', 'amount': '+192269.6'}[24].
  • YAL-1's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11570', 'amount': '+363000'}[25].
  • YAL-1's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00870240n[26].
  • YAL-1's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as airborne_laser[27].

Body

Designation and Status

YAL-1's instance of is recorded as aircraft model[4].

Why It Matters

YAL-1 ranks in the top 5% of aircraft_model entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (487 views/month).[2] YAL-1 has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] YAL-1 is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . dtic.mil. dtic.mil. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . boeing.com. boeing.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . boeing.com. boeing.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . boeing.com. boeing.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . boeing.com. boeing.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . dtic.mil. dtic.mil. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . boeing.com. boeing.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . simpleflying.com. Retrieved . simpleflying.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . dtic.mil. dtic.mil. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . simpleflying.com. Retrieved . simpleflying.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . airandspaceforces.com. airandspaceforces.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . airandspaceforces.com. airandspaceforces.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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