Testing last month at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico confirmed that a prototype weapons system consisting of a laser mounted on the ... missile exhaust or gun flashes that would reveal ...

The U.S. military is now one step closer to having a laser gun that can shoot down enemy ... an $11 million contract to build a vehicle-mounted laser device capable of shooting down low-flying ...

The Laser Weapon System or LaWS is a directed-energy weapon developed by the United States Navy. The weapon was installed on the USS Ponce for field testing in 2014. In December 2014 the United States ...

Ergo, laser weapons counter to drone warfare ... From the image provided by Tass, it appears that the gun was mounted to a tripod and, instead of a magazine, supplied energy via a power cable.

The offensive output of the 50-kilowatt laser gun would be comparable to the DE M-SHORAD prototypes mounted on Stryker armored vehicles that the U.S. Army recently sent to the Middle East to test ...