HELIOS, a 60-kW directed-energy weapons platform, was installed aboard the Preble in 2022 ... “We’re already integrating the HELIOS Laser Weapon System with the Aegis Weapon System CSL ...

The U.S. is losing the hypersonic arms race to China—but a formidable, new weapon could change the game. When the U.S. Navy’s ...

The U.S. Air Force has officially stepped back from plans to equip its fighter jets with laser weapons, citing major technical hurdles. Explore why the futuristic vision of airborne lasers is ...

Speaking to investors during a conference call to discuss the latest results, nLight’s CEO Scott Keeney said that shipments of key components for the US Department of Defense program to develop a ...

A Stryker carried a 50-kW laser for shooting down a range of small, fast-moving threats as part of the Army’s Directed-Energy Maneuver–Short-Range Air Defense program. Credit: Jim Kendall/U.S ...

Directed energy weapons include high-energy lasers that ... More recently, the Israel Defense Forces unveiled plans to field a laser missile interceptor system called the Iron Beam by this year ...

British Army soldiers successfully tracked, targeted and destroyed swarms of small drones in the latest test of a Directed Energy Weapon. The British Army has completed the UK’s largest counter ...

In 2015, U.S. aerospace and defense behemoth Boeing developed a laser weapon capable of taking down an unmanned aircraft by burning components of it from a distance in under 15 seconds.