A California-based defense firm has confirmed the development of a laser weapon for the drone system. The airborne laser is being developed by General Atomics under a joint program with the U.S ...

India has developed a 30-kilowatt laser-based directed-energy weapon (DEW) to counter aerial threats like missiles, ...

An engineer adjusts the beam-control optics that ride in the nose of the Airborne Laser Testbed, a modified Boeing 747-400F. The optics stabilize and shape the weapon laser’s beam as it is aimed ...

Still, the airborne laser has shown that directed energy weapons are pushing warfare to the speed of light. Video: Missile Defense Agency National Treasure: The History of the Lie Detector The ...

The laser-based weapon will have the capability to destroy enemy’s Tactical Ballistic Missiles – TBMs mid-air. It is being called the ‘Megawatt Airborne Laser Weapon’, which aims to ...

The airborne laser will be so powerful that the ... All of the plane’s crucial systems will have to be protected from the on-board laser weapons," he explained. KRET is the manufacturer of ...

TASS/. Russia’s Almaz design bureau has launched a project to design airborne laser technologies to counter ground-based, aerial and space surveillance systems, the company said in its annual ...