Podded Laser Weapon Took Center Stage In Latest Air Force Virtual Wargame
The Air Force conducted a virtual wargame featuring a laser pod in order to assess future weapons concepts.
The Air Force conducted a virtual wargame featuring a laser pod in order to assess future weapons concepts.
Laser communications pods could give fighter aircraft virtually unjammable high-bandwidth satellite communications.
Lasers dominate discussions about U.S. Navy directed energy weapons, but the service formed a new office devoted to systems that fire microwave beams.
The previously classified Starfire Optical Range can aid astronomers while enabling the Space Force to better detect and track small objects in space.
The amphibious warship Portland has the most powerful laser currently deployed aboard an operational vessel.
Less classification could help Space Force deter attacks on space-based systems and make it easier to promote its mission-critical work.
Space Force general details how jamming, blinding lasers, cyber attacks, and other satellites have America’s space-based capabilities under siege.
The laser system could offer the already super versatile AC-130J a new way to covertly destroy and disable critical targets.
Israel’s airborne laser program aims to add to its multi-layered air defense system that is increasingly tasked with countering low-end drone attacks.
We talk with one of the company’s top minds about its buggy-borne High Energy Laser Weapon System and the future of directed energy in combat.