The U.S. Army has begun testing an upgraded version of a vehicle-mounted laser weapon designed to combat the growing danger ...

Laser weapons go mobile as the US Army takes delivery of two 20-kW, anti-drone Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV)-mounted Laser-Oriented Counter-UAS System (LOCUST) Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) from ...

Boeing's High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD). The U.S. military is now one step closer to having a laser gun that can shoot down enemy drones in the blink of an eye. Boeing recently ...

Field tests of the British Army's newest drone-destroying mobile laser weapon have reportedly enjoyed great success. The Wolfhound high-energy laser weapon system (HELWS) is an armored troop-carrying ...

A truck-fired 50 kW laser weapon — an upgrade of the lumbering HEL-MTT — will be test fired in 2018. A 100 kW weapon on a more mobile vehicle — perhaps an 8×8 Stryker or tracked Bradley — will be test ...

Incoming missiles, artillery shells and aircraft may fear the beam. The long-sought dream of using lasers to defend against an enemy on a battlefield may be closer to realization, if recent tests in ...

Imagine a high-energy laser roaming a future battlefield on a fast-moving vehicle shooting down aerial threats to U.S. troops. It’s coming, the Army says, and developers showed a prototype to ...