The counter-drone weapon that caused a shutdown of El Paso's airspace on Wednesday was AeroVironment's LOCUST, a 20-kilowatt laser system, Axios has confirmed. Why it matters: The Army sees the ...
The U.S. Navy is switching its focus on directed-energy weapons from the megawatt-class free-electron laser to less-powerful solid-state lasers, announcing plans to develop and demonstrate a prototype ...
Boeing Co. said it will install a high-energy laser in a C-130H aircraft for tests next year that could lead to full-scale development of a laser gunship. Boeing's Missile Defense Systems unit took ...