The United States is moving forward with a new high-energy laser weapon designed to intercept cruise missiles, marking a step in the Pentagon’s broader “Golden Dome” missile defense concept. The ...

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.

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 ...

DoD believes the prototypes could lead to a useful alternative to expensive missiles for intercepting drones and cruise missiles.

The U.S. Army has started gathering market information and scheduled a live-fire demonstration to support the first program of record established for a new class of mass-producible, high-energy lasers ...

The Demonstrator Laser Weapon System, acting as a ground-based test surrogate for the SHiELD system, was able to engage and shoot down several air-launched missiles during tests at the High Energy ...

Lockheed Martin said today it had been selected by General Atomics as weapon system integrator for the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS). General Atomics’ Photonics Division is ...