In the vast expanse of the ocean, a streak of white light pierces the sky. It’s not lightning, but a weapon — a high-energy laser fired from the deck of a U.S. Navy destroyer. This is HELIOS, the High ...

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.

Lasers weapons have been overhyped and underwhelmed ever since the first beam lit up. For decades, most efforts at high-energy laser weapons, such as the US Navy’s Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical ...

The company just sent a laser weapon called the Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL) to the Air Force, meant to be mounted to a Lockheed AC-130, a heavily armed long-endurance gunship.

Chinese military experts are urging their country to accelerate the development of laser weapons in order to keep up with the United States' rapid advances in anti-drone technology, The South ...

Womp Sniper The laser weapons that the US military has developed in the past were designed to bore holes through metal, allowing them to disable relatively close-by vehicles or drones.

As you might have guessed from the US military's involvement, this could be big news for laser weapons -- but there are repercussions for laser-based communications and scientific research as well.

Also under development for the US Navy, the Mk 38 Mod 2 Machine Gun System with Tactical Laser System soups up a gun already deployed worldwide with a solid-state, high energy laser weapon.

The US military, one of the world’s largest developers of laser-based weapons is looking to develop technology that protects its own systems from the same weapons.

Navy Likely to Be First Service to Field Laser Weapons, Expert Says In Tech, US Must Be Where Russia, China Are Not: Air Force Scientist ...

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 ...