Chinese scientists claim they have made a converging energy beam weapon — but did they really, or have they been watching too ...

The U.S. Air Force's vaunted Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) program closed out without ever reaching its goal of testing a laser-directed energy weapon on a fighter.

Defence companies are accelerating plans to develop low-cost, high-energy laser weapons as militaries around the world look for ways to counter cheap new missile threats such as drones.

Tests run on a high-energy laser weapon system mounted on a British Army vehicle not only underline the potential enhanced ...

The Iron Beam is a 100kW-class High-Energy Laser Weapon System by Rafael Advanced Defense System, first publicly unveiled at the 2022 iteration of AUSA symposium in October of that year.

The reusable target board shown here enables the power and energy distribution of the high-energy laser beam to be accurately measured with high spatial and temporal resolution. Disclaimer ...

LWSD is a high-energy laser weapon system demonstrator developed by the Office of Naval Research and installed on Portland for an at-sea demonstration. LWSD’s operational employment on a Pacific ...

The centre will focus on the testing, fielding and maintenance of defensive high-energy laser (HEL) weapons. Raytheon's anti-drone lasers are small enough to be fitted to military vehicles.

A defense expert explains how high-energy laser weapons work and what they’re used for High-energy laser weapons: A defense expert explains how they work and what they are used for ...

If their claims are true, it means that China has leapfrogged over the US in developing high-energy laser weapons that could be used on the battlefield. The capability China's military scientists ...