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 US Navy has requested nearly $95 million in fiscal 2027 to accelerate development of the Joint Laser Weapon System (JLWS), a containerized high-energy laser aimed at countering cruise missile ...

Grant awarded in May of 2022 transitions to new contract to fund ongoing development and testing of the Company's capabilities to disrupt intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance sensors Applied ...

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, ...

Directed-energy weapons are set for key tests this year, including the attempted shoot-down of a boosting ballistic missile, but they may not dispel lingering doubts over the military utility of ...

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 ...

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. -- A recent Public Health audit of Madigan's laser safety program resulted in it being lauded as the best of its kind across Army Medicine.

Representatives from the Purdue Applied Research Institute’s LASER PULSE program traveled to Vietnam this summer to meet with three research teams working on air or water pollution projects. Led by ...