The Pentagon is betting that containerized lasers can break the drone swarm’s economics, survive the weather, and avoid becoming another expensive test-range ghost.

Modifications to Air Force Special Operations Command's (AFSOC) fleet of AC-130 gunships means that even if a planned August test of the new Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL) system aboard an AC-130J ...

Russia is also developing combat laser weapons alongside with the US said army general Yury Baluevsky, former Chief of the Russian General Staff. The US is field testing various combat 50-150 KW ...

Enemy surface-to-air threats to manned and unmanned aircraft have become increasingly sophisticated, creating a need for rapid and effective response to this growing category of threats. A potential ...

Russia spent decades nurturing a secretive airborne laser program that promised to blind satellites and shield its forces from prying eyes. Now that rare jet, long touted as a symbol of high-tech ...

High-energy laser weapons have promised so much for so long without delivering that you could be forgiven for doubting they would ever be useful on the battlefield. That day may finally have come. The ...

The Department Of Energy (DOE) proposes to shut down the Omega laser which was first built to help achieve fusion. A ‘three-year rampdown’ plan for the laser has been initiated and eventually the ...

Boeing’s Airborne Laser system uses adaptive optics to focus a megawatt-class beam on a ballistic missile target, destroying it. The chemical-pumped laser soon will be able to destroy a ballistic ...

Dutch engineer Johan Von Konowhas created a stunning gingerbread house – but instead of using traditional techniques he used a 50W laser engraver with a simple CAD program! Johan first created an ...