The U.S. Navy already has a laser weapon installed on a guided-missile destroyer, and the Pentagon is pushing to field combat ...
Congress wants the Navy's HELIOS laser in a container. See why this move aims to give warships flexible, drone-killing power ...
HELIOS is the only laser able to down drones installed on an active Navy warship, and putting it in a container would open up ...
Somewhere inside a shore-based lab in Southern California, a laser turret sat bolted to a test stand, cycling through ...
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 ...
Laser weapons are such an entrenched sci-fi trope that it's easy to forget just how real this tech can be (and is). While we're not exactly close to seeing real-life "Star Wars" space battles, the U.S ...
This story has been corrected. The U.S. Army has shelved its “Valkyrie” laser anti-missile system, shifting instead to the newer Joint Laser Weapon System, to be built with the Navy as part of the ...