USS Portland Uses Its Experimental Laser To Fry A Floating Target In The Middle East
The amphibious warship Portland has the most powerful laser currently deployed aboard an operational vessel.
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Laser Weapons On The Battlefield Of Tomorrow: Separating Fact From Fiction
One of Lockheed’s top laser minds tells about the limits of current tech and what is needed to make lasers more prevalent on tomorrow’s battlefield.
How The Once Elusive Dream Of Laser Weapons Suddenly Became A Reality
One of Lockheed Martin’s top directed energy minds explains how breakthroughs in communications and industrial tech made laser weapons possible.
Navy To Add Laser Weapons To At Least Seven More Ships In The Next Three Years
The laser dazzlers will help protect ships from certain kinds of attacks and shield them from surveillance from other ships, aircraft, and drones.
Navy Littoral Combat Ship Will Soon Be Armed With A Laser Weapon System
The U.S. Navy says the Freedom class Littoral Combat Ship USS Little Rock will get a 150-kilowatt class laser weapon system from Lockheed Martin this year. This would make Little Rock the third of the service’s warships to be fitted with a laser of some kind, following the installation of two different designs on the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Dewey and the San Antonio class landing platform dock amphibious ship USS Portland last year.
Mysterious Laser Turret Appears On US Navy Destroyer USS Dewey
The system is likely the service’s new “ODIN” laser dazzler that is meant to blind enemy optics on ships, boats, aircraft, and missiles.