The Hellads program differs from JHPSSL in being the first program to impose size and weight requirements on a complete laser weapon system. The goal is to produce a 150-kw. weapon that fits within 3 ...

The Pentagon’s push to field laser weapons has shifted from laboratory curiosity to operational reality, with recent tests showing systems that can track, target, and disable threats in real time.

When the Pentagon first commissioned an anti-ballistic missile system (i.e. a Boeing 747 with a chemical laser attached to its nose), it spent roughly five years and $16 billion trying to perfect the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - The Army is continuing work on a potential new laser program at Redstone Arsenal that could eventually help defend U.S. troops on the battlefield. The U.S. Army Space and Missile ...

Modifications to Air Force Special Operations Command's (AFSOC) fleet of AC-130 gunships means that even if a planned August test of the new Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL) system aboard an AC-130J ...

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. -- A recent Public Health audit of Madigan's laser safety program resulted in it being lauded as the best of its kind across Army Medicine.

On 2 December 2025, a containerized prototype high-energy laser system was confirmed to be installed on the aft deck of JS ...

Russia is also developing combat laser weapons alongside with the US said army general Yury Baluevsky, former Chief of the Russian General Staff. The US is field testing various combat 50-150 KW ...

The Department Of Energy (DOE) proposes to shut down the Omega laser which was first built to help achieve fusion. A ‘three-year rampdown’ plan for the laser has been initiated and eventually the ...

FORT PIERCE — Three students tinkered with a network of mirror lenses and prisms until a steady green laser beam shot across their work station. At one point, the laser splits into two streams, then ...

Since its invention in 1960, lasers have found their way into a wide range of uses – from the more commonly known applications seen in modern medicine, optical data drives and laser pointers, to ...