Amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) conducts a high-energy laser weapon system demonstration on a static surface training target, Dec. 14, while sailing in the Gulf of Aden. See SWNS ...
Japan has quietly crossed a threshold that military planners have talked about for decades: it is now firing a shipboard laser powerful enough to burn through metal and destroy drones in flight. The ...
Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, moving a 100 kilowatt class laser from the lab into real ocean ...
Modern warships are increasingly exposed to short-range aerial threats that traditional defenses struggle to counter ...
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A still image from footage released by DRDO showing live-fire tests of its Integrated Air Defense Weapon System. Credit: DRDO India says it used a high-energy laser to down a drone as part of the ...
Earlier this summer, Israel made military history. Not with a missile, bomb or bullet — but with a beam of light. In a first for modern warfare, the Israel Defense Forces successfully intercepted ...
The only real laser weapon that saw service during the 20th century was a low-power laser used by the Royal Navy during the 1982 Falklands War to temporarily dazzle and distract enemy pilots. Not that ...
The U.S. Army has awarded a Dynetics-led industry team a potential $130M contract to build and demonstrate a 100-kilowatt-class laser weapons system. “High energy laser weapons have been a system that ...