MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. -- A recent Public Health audit of Madigan's laser safety program resulted in it being lauded as the best of its kind across Army Medicine.

The Department Of Energy (DOE) proposes to shut down the Omega laser which was first built to help achieve fusion. A ‘three-year rampdown’ plan for the laser has been initiated and eventually the ...

Why shoot bullets or missiles, when you can dissolve your enemies with a super laser? It’s a potentially devastating weapon that needs no ammunition, can shoot lasers right out of the sky, and can run ...

Editor's note: A name that was incorrect in a previous version of this story has been corrected. In the more than 10 years of working with directed energy, the airborne laser program continues to do ...

Beam Control/Fire Control system will aim and fire a high-energy laser at a target missile in its boost phase. Raytheon conducted a “first light” test of the Track Illuminator Laser (TILL) one week ...

Russia is also developing combat laser weapons alongside with the US said army general Yury Baluevsky, former Chief of the Russian General Staff. The US is field testing various combat 50-150 KW ...

Boeing announced today that it has accepted the Oshkosh Defense military truck that will carry a Boeing-built laser beam control system for the US Army's High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator (HEL ...