The U.S. Navy already has a laser weapon installed on a guided-missile destroyer, and the Pentagon is pushing to field combat-ready directed-energy systems by 2028. The Optical Dazzling Interdictor, ...

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 Demonstrator Laser Weapon System, acting as a ground-based test surrogate for the SHiELD system, was able to engage and shoot down several air-launched missiles during tests at the High Energy ...

The United States is moving forward with a new high-energy laser weapon designed to intercept cruise missiles, marking a step in the Pentagon’s broader “Golden Dome” missile defense concept. The ...

The U.S. Army has started gathering market information and scheduled a live-fire demonstration to support the first program of record established for a new class of mass-producible, high-energy lasers ...

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 ...

Lockheed Martin said today it had been selected by General Atomics as weapon system integrator for the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS). General Atomics’ Photonics Division is ...

Star Wars Day couldn’t have offered better timing. The Pentagon’s May 4th social media flex about directed energy weapons being a “fine addition to our arsenal” landed like a thermal detonator in ...