Another Dead End for Airborne Lasers: Air Force Scraps Effort to Mount Directed-Energy Weapon on Fighter Jet The Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator, or SHiELD, was envisioned as a laser weapon mounted on fighter jets such as...
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones A pair of laser weapons has been deployed by the Army to an undisclosed location overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out...
Top General in Mideast Calls for Microwave Weapons for 'Layered' Defense Against Drone Swarms The top general responsible for U.S. troops in the Middle East wants to see a surge of directed-energy weapons in the region...
High-Energy Laser Weapons: A Defense Expert Explains How They Work and What They Are Used For Visions of swarms of small, inexpensive drones filling the skies or skimming across the waves are motivating militaries to...
A Moment of Truth for the Army's Chief Laser Weapon Four prototypes reportedly arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of operations in early February, with the Army...
As Laser Pointer Incidents Spike, Airmen Are Getting Updated Eyewear That Provides Better Protection The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Human Systems Division is starting to field new, upgraded eyewear that can...
Incidents of Laser Points Aimed at Aircraft Have Spiked, and It Has the Air Force Concerned Personal laser pointers, small beam projectors used for everything from professors during college lecture presentations to...
Ride of the Valkyries: The Army Is Getting the US Military's Most Powerful Laser Weapons Yet The Army will receive a platoon of four Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser (IFPC-HEL) laser weapons...
The US Military Has Been Testing Pulsed Energy on Animals Trying to Recreate the Mysterious 'Havana Syndrome' Symptoms These experiments have been taking place at Michigan's Wayne State University.
Navy Still Pouring Millions into Shipboard Laser Weapon Development The Navy's fiscal 2023 budget request calls for over $103 million to support a half-dozen laser weapon concepts, according to...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-40-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
![Lockheed Martin's Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-10/pub-valkyrie-laser-engages-drone-1200.jpg?itok=BmuKifGp "An artist's rendering of Lockheed Martin's Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser, also called "Valkyrie," engaging a hostile drone. (Lockheed Martin)")
