laser-beam-blinding Author: KING Staff Published: 4:05 AM PDT July 22, 2010 Updated: 4:05 AM PDT July 22, 2010 ...

The newest laser beam system is designed to operate as the Israeli integrated missile defense system's short-range component, able to fire down incoming rockets, drones, artillery, and mortar bombs.

Boeing this week unveiled one of its latest military projects — a drone-targeting laser cannon. Called the Compact Laser Weapon System, the weapon uses a tracking system and focused laser beam ...

This infrared image shows a laser beam signal from NASA's LADEE moon probe as seen in infrared by the European Space Agency's Optical Ground Station in Tenerife, Spain on Oct. 26, 2013.

Scientists have demonstrated in a first that a powerful laser beam directed at the sky can create a “virtual lightning rod” that can divert the path of lightning strikes.

Iron Beam employs a 100kW fiber laser on a swivel, which can hit targets as far as an estimated 7 kilometers away. By contrast, Iron Dome missiles can intercept objects up to 70km away.

If you’ve got a $200 radar detector in your car and you think you’resafe from traffic cops, then you haven’t been hit by a laser beam yet. The latest road weapon against speeding … ...

Light's shadow: Researchers showed that a laser beam can sometimes act like a solid object and cast a shadow that is visible to the naked eye. In the picture, the shadow appears as the horizontal line ...

Seems like a hoax—but Alitalia reports that a laser light shone up from the ground as Alitalia Flight AZ4000, ferrying His Holiness to Mexico City, approached the capital city's airport on Friday.