The United Kingdom has quietly brought a piece of science fiction into operational reality, field‑testing a high‑energy laser ...

After developing the most powerful laser ever made for use on an aircraft, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach has been forced to transfer the engineers and other employees responsible ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - The Army is continuing work on a potential new laser program at Redstone Arsenal that could eventually help defend U.S. troops on the battlefield. The U.S. Army Space and Missile ...

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va., ― A counter-drone laser in use by the Army was on display here this week, giving Marines a glimpse at how they might melt drones soon. The Compact Laser Weapon System, ...

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 ...

The Pentagon's mad science arm is moving ahead with a project to build a laser weapon "compact enough to be carried on board a tactical aircraft - say a B-1B bomber or an AC-130 gunship," Aviation ...

FORT PIERCE — Three students tinkered with a network of mirror lenses and prisms until a steady green laser beam shot across their work station. At one point, the laser splits into two streams, then ...

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 ...

Army modernization officials are getting help from the Navy to make the service's High Energy Laser program more than twice as powerful for fending off aerial attacks from swarms of enemy drones.

A Boeing 747 jumbo jet outfitted with a massive laser gun failed to knock out a dummy missile over the Pacific Ocean, marking the second consecutive setback for a key missile defense program that is ...

January 30, 2006 Boeing Missile Defense Systems (MDS) has taken delivery of a U.S. Air Force's C-130H transport aircraft to begin preparations for the creation of the first airborn laser gunship under ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Laser Photonics Corporation (LPC) (NASDAQ: LASE), a leading global developer of laser systems for cleaning and other material processing applications, is excited to ...