Will Deploy Solid-State Laser Weapon On Ship Headed To Persian Gulf : The Two-Way In a recent test, the laser successfully destroyed destroyed an unmanned aircraft in flight. The Navy touted the ...

Solid-state laser weapons are a step closer to operational capability with the U.S. Office of Naval Research reporting that it has successfully disabled a small target boat during testing off ...

Back in the RELI ring, Northrop Grumman has made some key forays forward in high-energy solid-state lasers. In 2001, the company became the first to successfully operate a laser weapon at sea for ...

Correspondingly, a 100-kilowatt solid-state laser -- the Holy Grail for weapons developers -- could deliver a destructive beam to a target dozens of miles away, making it an effective tactical weapon.

Boeing has just tested its new thin-disk laser, the most powerful solid-state laser ever made. It fires at over 25 kilowatts, with the scalability proven to go up to a 100 kilowatt laser in the ...

The amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) conducts a Solid State Laser – Technology Maturation Laser Weapon System Demonstrator (LWSD) MK 2 MOD 0 test on May 16, 2020.

Solid-state laser weapons offer war-fighters unique capabilities for the battlefield: precision, controllability, predictability, repeatability and flexibility. These laser systems will enable ...

Boeing solid-state laser weapon system outshines expectations By David Szondy. August 18, 2013 Facebook; ... this type of solid state laser was first developed in the 1990s.

A US Navy warship has successfully tested a new high-energy laser weapon that can destroy aircraft mid-flight, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said in a statement Friday.

The high-energy laser systems that are finding military applications are based on solid-state lasers that use special crystals to convert the input electrical energy into photons. A key aspect of high ...

From the week gone by on the directed-energy weapons front: defense contractor Northrop Grumman reported that it got a solid-state laser to fire a beam with a potency of 105.5 kilowatts.

Northrop Grumman has introduced the first ruggedized high-power solid-state laser designed for operation on the battlefield. The 15-kw. Firestrike laser is being offered for use in ground-­, sea ...