Elbit on path to next stage in laser military technology: Air force lasers

Aerial lasers are also the holy grail of lasers in that they can be used more effectively and suddenly on both defense and ...
Asharq Al-Awsat on MSN

Israeli Anti-Missile Laser System ‘Iron Beam’ Ready for Military Use This Year

A low-cost, high-power laser-based system aimed at destroying incoming missiles has successfully completed testing and will ...
Network World

Airborne laser weapons heating up

The US Missile Defense Agency and Boeing are creeping ever closer to test firing a laser at ballistic missile. Boeing this week said it had completed its first Airborne Laser (ABL) missile ...
The Aviationist

Lockheed Martin Releases New Animation of F-16s Using Tactical Airborne Laser Pod

“Tactical Airborne Laser Pods are Coming”. An interesting new video has just been released by Lockheed Martin. Focusing on the Tactical Airborne Laser Weapon System (TALWS), the animation ...
Flightglobal

Boeing nears first light test for Airborne Laser

Boeing is nearing the first light of the 1MW-class energy beam on board a parked YAL-1 Airborne Laser (ABL). The key milestone for the missile defence programme was originally scheduled for late ...
CNET

Airborne Laser sticks to test regimen

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 ...
C4ISRNET

Airborne laser weapon on track for 2022 demonstration

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 ...