Why The U.S. Navy Loves Lasers

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Why The Navy Wants To Fall In Love With Laser Weapons -- Popular Mechanics Beam weapons promise ...

U.S. Navy To Deploy Laser Weapons Off The Coast Of Iran

Navy Deploying Laser Weapon Prototype Near Iran -- New York Times WASHINGTON — The Navy is going to sea for the first time with a laser atta...

Darpa Wants To Put Lasers On Fighter Jets

DARPA Putting Laser Turrets On Fighter Jets Next Year -- DVice Our first foray into laser-equipped combat aircraft was the Airborne Laser Te...

Asia’s Coming “Sci-Fi” Arms Race

Image credit: Wikicommons Lasers: Asia’s Coming “Sci-Fi” Arms Race -- J. Michael Cole, The Diplomat True to Newton’s Third Law on Motion, we...

Germany Unveils It's Own 'Star Wars' Laser

The system is currently mounted of a series of large metal containers. However, the firm is developing a smaller, portable version that coul...

Star Wars On The High Seas

U.S. Navy Just Two Years Away From Arming Warships With Laser Weapons Capable Of Destroying Incoming Missiles And Aircraft -- Daily Mail Onc...

Here Comes The U.S. Army's Monster Laser Truck

Not quite handheld yet... The truck-mounted laser weapons system that Boeing and the Pentagon hopes will prove the efficacy of the technolog...

A Laser That Shoots Lightning

Guided lightning bolt travels horizontally, then hits a car. (Credit: U.S. Army) Brrzzzt! U.S. Army Checks Out Laser-Based Lightning Tech --...

US Navy May Deploy LasersOn Their Ships In Four Years

Burning Beam Target: US Navy May Deploy Lasers In Four Years -- RT The US Navy hopes to have operational laser cannons on their ships within...

U.S. Navy Making Strides In High-Energy Laser Development

Watch the Navy Set a Boat on Fire with Their New Laser Gun -- Techland/Time Remember the German guy who built his own working laser gun? Tha...

U.S. Navy Has A Breakthrough In Its Laser Program

The battleships of the future will be equipped with mega-watt free electron lasers. Photo from FOX News US Office Of Naval Research Achieves...

Advances In The Navy's Megawatt Laser Weapon Is Surprising Everyone

Naval Lasing Raytheon's prototype ship-borne laser system has effectively shot down UAVs from the deck of a ship. The Navy wants a more ...

Lasers To Protect Ships From Pirate Attacks?

British engineers are developing a new type of defence system that uses lasers to incapacitate pirates by dazzling them Laser Canons To Def...

The Navy's Free Electron Laser System Will Be More Than Just A Death Ray

The Navy Wants a Multipurpose Laser to Eliminate Threats at Sea U.S. Navy From Popular Science: The Navy has been seeking its “Holy Grail” f...

Advances In Laser Research Opens Up Military Possibilities

Laser-Powered Warfare Lockheed's RELI laser, developed under a DARPA contract, works like an inverse prism to focus several different w...

The Theoretical Energy Ceiling For Lasers Is Approaching

Construction Worker in Laser Target Chamber at National Ignition Facility Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Coming Generation Of Lase...

Air Force Calls For Airborne Electric Lasers That Can Target Land and Air

Laser Fight in the Sky I'll get you, Joes! DARPA From Popular Science: The challenge is packing the power of a chemical laser into an...

Video: Boeing's Truck-Mounted Laser Neatly Picks Off 50 IEDs In A Row

From Popular Science: Boeing's laser weapons have already shown the power to blast aerial drones from the sky, but may find even more im...

Boeing's Latest Mobile Laser Weapon Tracks And Shoots Down Drone

Laser Defense: Boeing's MATRIX high-energy directed weapon knocks a UAV out of the sky. U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory From Popular...

Air Force Uses Airborne Lasers to Create High-Speed Data Links

Airborne Laser Link Air Force phone home Brian Rhea, Director, Corporate Communications, AOptix Technologies From Popular Science: Researc...