The Army-Navy effort aims to produce a containerized 150-kilowatt high-energy laser weapon to counter incoming cruise ...

New Pentagon FY2027 budget documents reveal the Joint Laser Weapon System, a containerized 300kW+ laser weapon designed to ...

Navy effort aims to produce a containerized 150 kilowatt high-energy laser weapon to counter incoming cruise missiles.

The Pentagon thinks modern lasers might finally be ready for missile defense duty.

High-energy laser weapons are a natural fit for large, power-rich aircraft carriers - with limits.

The U.S. Navy recently rebooted the SSL-TM, a 150-kilowatt laser weapon aboard the USS Portland. This returned effort could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of JIATF-401 and the FAA with the AMP-HEL system, March 7, 2026. (U.S. Air Force) Editor’s note: This story originally ...

The U.S. military is once again pursuing flying directed energy weapons to counter threats to American airspace.

The U.S. military is laying the foundation for deploying high-energy laser weapons for domestic air defense.

This story has been corrected. The U.S. Army has shelved its “Valkyrie” laser anti-missile system, shifting instead to the newer Joint Laser Weapon System, to be built with the Navy as part of the ...

The U.S. Navy is accelerating its push into directed energy weapons as drone threats ...

nLIGHT, Inc. (Nasdaq: LASR), a leading provider of high-power lasers for mission-critical directed energy, optical sensing, and advanced manufacturing applications, today announced it will showcase a ...