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An illustration of the 300-kilowatt laser weapon system General Atomics and Boeing are developing under a contract for the U.S. Army's R...

U.S. Navy To Test Laser Weapon Aboard Ship In Persian Gulf -- L.A. Times The Navy plans to install a laser weapon prototype on a ship ...

DARPA Putting Laser Turrets On Fighter Jets Next Year -- DVice Our first foray into laser-equipped combat aircraft was the Airborne La...

The system is currently mounted of a series of large metal containers. However, the firm is developing a smaller, portable version that c...

Image credit: Wikicommons Lasers: Asia’s Coming “Sci-Fi” Arms Race -- J. Michael Cole, The Diplomat True to Newton’s Third Law on Mo...

Not quite handheld yet... The truck-mounted laser weapons system that Boeing and the Pentagon hopes will prove the efficacy of the techno...

The future of energy? NIF Director Edward Moses said. 'It is fully operational, and scientists are taking important steps toward the que...

DARPA Unveils Drone-Slaying War Laser -- Fast Company A weapon that used to be the size of a passenger jet now fits on the back of a flatbed...

From Popular Science: Boeing's laser weapons have already shown the power to blast aerial drones from the sky, but may find even more im...

The images at top, taken in a few billionths of a second, detail experiments at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics meant to simulate stella...

Example of a laser wakefield simulated in a “Boosted Frame”. Electrons (colored tubes) are injected and accelerated by surfing the wave (blu...

Airborne Laser Link Air Force phone home Brian Rhea, Director, Corporate Communications, AOptix Technologies From Popular Science: Researc...

The Gemini North observatory in Hawaii fires a laser into the sky as part of its adaptive optics system (Image: Gemini Observatory) From New...

From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Sep. 20, 2009) — Tomorrow's lasers may come with a bit of bling, thanks to a new technology that uses ...

The US military's missile-defence laser is taking to the air for its first full-power try-out (Image: Russ Underwood, Lockheed Martin) F...

This Laser Cures Cancer, Brah: Gary Braun stands by the drug-activating laser courtesy of University of California, Santa Barbara From Pop...

An infrared picture shows the change in temperature for laser-cooled gas (blue) and a surrounding metal chamber (red and yellow). After a 30...

From The BBC: US military researchers are developing a method for communication that uses lasers to make sound underwater. The approach focu...

From Live Science: A new laser technology has made it possible to turn light into sound. Developed by scientists at the Naval Research Labor...

A US weapons lab pulled back the curtain on a super laser with the power to burn as hot as a star From AFP: SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — A US weapo...