A high-power laser weapon light enough to be carried by tactical aircraft has moved out of the laboratory and onto the testing ground. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems' High-Energy Liquid Laser ...

The Pentagon wants laser weapons badly. Their first foray into the realm of ray guns was the impressive-but-impractical Airborne Laser Testbed, a Boeing 747 with a giant laser mounted on its nose.

The High-Energy Liquid Laser (HELLADS) has completed the US government acceptance test procedure, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) announced on 21 May. It will now undergo live fire ...

WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) --A new laser from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is to undergo field tests after successfully demonstrating its laser power and beam quality. The field ...

A DARPA illustration depicts HELLADS in action. The Pentagon’s pursuit of high-energy laser weapons is taking another step forward, with the decision to move the High-Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems announced Friday that its lightweight, tactical laser weapon is ready for live-fire tests at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The 150-kilowatt ...

The Army has its HEL-MD (not to mention is working on GI Joe-style rifles and minesweepers); the Navy put a battleship-mounted railgun aboard the USS Ponce; and within the next five years, the Air ...

It's not easy building a laser weapon. And the hardest part might be keeping the ray gun cool. Take the Airborne laser, for example. The blaster-carrying, modified 747 scheduled for test flights later ...

The U.S. Air Force wants to equip its war planes with the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) by 2020, upping its defense game. The Army and the Navy have already moved to upgrade ...