Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, installing a massive high-energy laser on a dedicated test ship and ...

A commercially available hobby-drone is flying on White Sands Missile Range in support of advanced laser testing. Engineers at the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility are using a commercially ...

An incredible image buried deep in an annual military report released last month shows the U.S. Navy test-firing a high-powered laser weapon at a drone target from one of its warships. The photo of ...

Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy has forward-deployed the laser-armed destroyer USS Preble in Japan since October 2024. The 60-kilowatt weapon—High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and ...

Planned flight testing of a high-energy laser directed energy weapon on a U.S. Air Force AC-130J Ghostrider gunship has been pushed back again to next year. This once looked set to be the service's ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on June 13 completed the second flight test in seven days of its Airborne Laser in which the specially modified 747 aircraft used two of its onboard ...

Laser weapons small enough to fit aboard fighter jets could begin ground-based firing tests aimed at shooting down threats to U.S. military warplanes in 2014. The 150-kilowatt lasers would represent a ...

Lockheed Martin has delivered to the US Air Force its Airborne High Energy Laser system to be installed and tested on an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship. The laser completed factory acceptance testing and ...

August 5, 2005 The Boeing Airborne Laser (ABL) team has completed flight testing of the system’s passive mission payload, moving the program through another phase of critical testing. This test event, ...

The increasingly widespread applications of laser pointers and the growing number of incidents in connection with these devices being misused have aroused concerns about laser pointer safety. Recent ...

Various institutes around the world have long touted the potential of breath testing as a form of early and non-invasive disease detection. Now a research team from Australia's University of Adelaide ...