The United States military is now moving directed-energy weapons from experimentation toward regular battlefield ...
Scientists have developed a method for generating fast, bright proton beams using a high-repetition-rate laser-plasma accelerator. This work, published in Nature Communications, resolves several ...
Perhaps the most precise method of guiding munitions to a target is with a laser device, ‘painting’ the target so that munitions can lock on and follow the beam. However, in order to do this, military ...
During its Pacific patrol last year, the USS Preble successfully shot down an unmanned aerial target using its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system.
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – U.S. Army land warfare experts are asking electro-optics engineers at Safran Optics 1 Inc. in Bedford, N.H., for additional next-generation laser target locator systems.
You draw a small gun from a holster on your hip.You pull the trigger. A beam of light shoots out. It hits a distant target.