US Navy takes delivery of tactical Lockheed Martin laser weapon
Aug 21, 2022 · The US Navy has taken delivery of a near-operational high-energy tactical laser weapon called the High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance system from Lockheed Martin...
Directed-energy weapon - Wikipedia
A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices. [1][2]
Navy Ray Gun Development | C-UAS HELWS Laser Weapon - Popular Mechanics
Oct 8, 2021 · The U.S. Navy just signed a contract for a new portable laser weapon system. Known as C-UAS HELWS, the service will use the weapon to target drones. Thanks to new technology, lasers are getting...
Laser weapon - Wikipedia
Developed by Hellenic company Soukos Robotics, the SR-42 is a large anti-drone system consisting of radio jammer, microwave jammer, optical dazzler, 12.7mm gun and laser weapon mounted on a unmanned BTR 8×8 vehicle and was unveiled at the Defence Exhibition Athens (DEFEA) in July 2021.
Laser Pistols: Emerging weapon and tactics - SPACE & DEFENSE
Sep 29, 2020 · Laser Pistols are internationally condemned as ‘weapons of mass destruction’, in desperation battlefield commanders are given direct access to tactical nuclear weapons to try to achieve some type of battlefield parity against the new Laserarmed army.
Ray Guns Near Crossroads to the Battlefield [Slide Show]
May 14, 2010 · After more than a century of popular sci-fi fantasies that feature deadly energy weapons, including War of the Worlds, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Star Trek and Star Wars, it looks like the ray...
The Navy's Next Laser Weapon Is Basically a Real-Life Ray Gun
Oct 10, 2021 · The U.S. Navy just signed a contract for a new portable laser weapon system. Known as C-UAS HELWS, the service will use the weapon to target drones. Thanks to new technology, lasers are getting...
Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence - IEEE Spectrum
Dec 4, 2022 · Lockheed Martin's laser packs up to 300 kilowatts—enough to fry a drone or a plane. The technical challenge of missile defense has been compared with that of hitting a bullet with a bullet. Then there is the still tougher economic challenge of using an expensive interceptor to kill a cheaper target—like hitting a lead bullet with a golden one.
Science Fiction to Real Life: The US Navy’s Ray Guns
Feb 4, 2022 · The US Navy’s Ray Gun. Yup, you heard that right. The US Navy’s version of a ray gun comes in the form of the Counter-Unmanned Air Systems High Energy Laser Weapon System (or C-UAS...
Military technology: Laser weapons get real - Nature
May 27, 2015 · Andy Extance discusses the military reality of laser weapons. That seems only natural: laser weapons are a staple of modern video games, and ray-guns of various sorts were common in science ...