A commercially available hobby-drone is flying on White Sands Missile Range in support of advanced laser testing. Engineers at the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility are using a commercially ...

Japan has quietly crossed a threshold that military planners have talked about for decades: it is now firing a shipboard ...

An incredible image buried deep in an annual military report released last month shows the U.S. Navy test-firing a high-powered laser weapon at a drone target from one of its warships. The photo of ...

Planned flight testing of a high-energy laser directed energy weapon on a U.S. Air Force AC-130J Ghostrider gunship has been pushed back again to next year. This once looked set to be the service's ...

Military researchers are now proving that drones do not always need to carry their own fuel or batteries. In recent tests, ...

The high-power laser weapon is installed on the 6,200-ton test ship JS Asuka and will undergo sea trials in real maritime ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on June 13 completed the second flight test in seven days of its Airborne Laser in which the specially modified 747 aircraft used two of its onboard ...

Laser weapons small enough to fit aboard fighter jets could begin ground-based firing tests aimed at shooting down threats to U.S. military warplanes in 2014. The 150-kilowatt lasers would represent a ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA)’s planned Aug. 17 flight test of the Airborne Laser system was postponed when one of its cooling systems failed in preparation for the test, ...

Lockheed Martin has delivered to the US Air Force its Airborne High Energy Laser system to be installed and tested on an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship. The laser completed factory acceptance testing and ...

August 5, 2005 The Boeing Airborne Laser (ABL) team has completed flight testing of the system’s passive mission payload, moving the program through another phase of critical testing. This test event, ...