According to Rheinmetall, the German Navy’s directed energy weapon can engage a wide range of targets, including guided ...

Rheinmetall and MBDA have met a major milestone in moving their containerized laser weapon system to market. After a year of ...

Developed in partnership with Australia's Silex Systems, the SILEX — short for Separation of Isotopes by Laser EXcitation — ...

D efence contractors Rheinmetall and MBDA in Germany have delivered a naval laser demonstrator for the German Navy to the ...

Rutgers University scientists are testing laser-powered machines that kill weeds without chemicals. Early results show the AI ...

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 ...

Boeing and its directed-energy cohort say the 747-mounted laser weapon continues to pass milestones in testing. But what of it? Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA)’s planned Aug. 17 flight test of the Airborne Laser system was postponed when one of its cooling systems failed in preparation for the test, ...

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 ...

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 ...