Special Operations Command wants to demonstrate a high energy laser on an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship in fiscal 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Ryan Conroy) Leaders from Air Force Special ...

The Air Force no longer plans on installing and operating a high-energy laser weapon on a special operations gunship due to "technical challenges," an official said, bringing the service's latest ...

Boeing and its directed-energy cohort say the 747-mounted laser weapon continues to pass milestones in testing. But what of it? Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since ...

Israel is testing airborne high-power laser weapons that can shoot down drones with a precision of 100 percent. The Israeli Ministry of Defense recently posted a tweet showing interception tests using ...

Logo of Israeli defence electronics firm Elbit Systems is seen at their offices in Haifa JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Defence Ministry and defence contractor Elbit Systems Ltd are developing an ...

The Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) has demonstrated the use of an airborne laser to shoot down unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). The project saw an Elbit Systems laser mounted aboard a Cessna 208B ...

Take one standard Boeing 747 freight carrier, squeeze on a massive megawatt chemical oxygen iodine laser, add to that an Nd:YAG laser, a Yb:YAG laser and a CO 2 laser, and what do you get? The answer ...

The proof-of-concept laser-equipped 747 takes out a ballistic missile in a bittersweet achievement for fans of directed-energy weapons. Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's ...

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, ...