The US military’s full embrace of high-energy laser weapons may depends on how easy they are for the average service member ...

Welcome to Pulse, a regular digest of updates from around the directed energy ecosystem. In this week’s edition: the US military’s dreaded Active Denial System finally gets a mission, the Defense ...

America’s laser dome is gradually taking shape. The US military has selected four directed energy weapons to participate in a Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) 401 pilot program to “expand the ...

Since late August, the US military’s Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) 401 has been touting a December “directed energy shoot-off” as a key milestone in its effort to field such capabilities to ...

Welcome to Pulse, a regular digest of updates from around the directed energy ecosystem. In this week’s edition: a note on a recent New York Post article on US military laser weapons, NATO’s biggest ...

The US Army’s first production-ready high-energy laser weapons could end up in soldiers’ hands in the next 18 months, according to service officials.

The cruise missile-killing high-energy laser weapon the US Defense Department envisions as part of its ‘Golden Dome for America’ domestic missile defense shield is beginning to take shape. Laser Wars ...

On a modern battlefield defined by the ever-expanding “affordable mass” of cheap, disposable drones, Ben Levinson wants to build something that lasts. Levinson is the founder and CEO of Heven AeroTech ...

The US Army has awarded defense contractor AV a $464.8 million contract for the production of high-energy laser weapons under the Enduring High Energy Laser (E-HEL) program, the service announced — ...

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