(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Iain Boyd, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) Nations around the ...

Mounted on a Stryker A1 8×8 armored vehicle, the DE M‑SHORAD system features a 50-kW class solid-state laser. This laser is ...

The Iron Dome has a success rate of about 90 percent against incoming rockets. Iron Beam will attempt to close the remaining ...

Scientists have captured the moment a laser "comes to life"—and what they found challenges long-held beliefs. Using a special ...

High Energy Lasers. Laser Weapons; Air Force Pilots are Training with Laser Weapons United States Air Force pilots recently conducted wargames that included pilots practicing with virtual laser ...

The High Energy Laser Counter Anti-Ship Cruise Missile Project, known as HELCAP, will bring 300+ kW of power to bear. For comparison, ...

The High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) is a weapon system developed by Lockheed Martin capable of engaging targets at the speed of light.

A laser-equipped research platform has, for the first time, photographed airflow just millimeters above ocean waves, ...

Conventional accelerators use oscillating electric fields to drive charged particles to relativistic speeds. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, for example, uses radio-frequency oscillations to ...

"Our High-Energy Laser Weapon System has been used in operations globally, and now the British Army is experimenting with this game-changing capability", said James Gray, ...

HELIOS, or high energy laser with integrated optical-dazzler and surveillance, is a type of directed energy weapon manufactured by Lockheed Martin and delivered, opens new tab to the U.S. Navy in ...

High-energy protons find applications in imaging and tumour therapy, ... Pre-pulses are small bursts of laser energy preceding an intense laser pulse.