A Dynetics-led team has been selected over Raytheon to develop a 100-kW high-energy laser weapon system for demonstration by the U.S. Army in fiscal 2022.

After an eight-month sprint to develop and install a laser-equipped counter uncrewed aircraft system on an Army Stryker vehicle, Leonardo DRS and BlueHalo announced today they conducted a ...

After decades of research and development, the U.S. military is officially using laser weapons in combat zones overseas. The U.S. Army recently disclosed that the service had not only deployed a ...

MILAN – Finland has planned a live-firing event to assess the potential of laser-guided artillery munitions and their compatibility with Finnish weapons, which could provide the Nordic country ...

Israel's military used new laser weapons to kill enemy drones, making it the first country to do so in a war. It marks a major development in the fielding and use of these experimental weapons ...

The Helios weapon, which uses a 60 kW high-energy laser that can engage targets at the speed of light, is an advanced directed energy system developed for the US by Lockheed Martin.

The laser platform is shown locking onto steel targets and subsequently shooting down unidentified drones in mid-flight, suggesting operational capability rather than mere demonstration.

The U.S. Navy is switching its focus on directed-energy weapons from the megawatt-class free-electron laser to less-powerful solid-state lasers, announcing plans to develop and demonstrate a ...

Ukraine military officials revealed its new “Trident” laser air-defence weapon that can shoot down aircraft from more than a mile away and could be a game-changer in the conflict, Ukrainian ...

The operations were managed by a centralised command-and-control centre built by the Defence Research and Development ...

Britain has successfully fired a laser weapon from an army combat vehicle for the first time, the UK government announced today. During trials, the system “neutralised” targets at distances in ...

The weapon, known as the Palletized High Energy Laser (P-HEL) and developed by the American defense contractor BlueHalo based on the company’s 20-kilowatt Locust Laser Weapon System, first ...