After drones and missiles, laser technology is the future of combat. The use of laser weapons has already begun.

The main problem is obtaining a sufficient burn of laser beam-created heat at longer ranges to do enough damage to bring down or destroy the incoming drone or warhead. Israel believes Light Shield has ...

The US Army has conducted live-fire tests of laser ... directed energy (DE) to blast drones from the sky. The "first of its ...

IRON BEAM is a 100kW class High Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWS) that engages and neutralises a wide array of threats from a range of hundreds of meters to several kilometers. (Photo: Rafael) Dr R ...

HII Unit To Develop High-Energy Laser Weapon System For U.S. Army's RCCTO March 24, 2025 — 08:59 am EDT Written by RTTNews.com for RTTNews -> ...

MT High Energy Laser - March 2025 HII’s Mission Technologies division was selected to develop an open architecture High-Energy Laser (HEL) weapon system for the U.S. Army’s Rapid Capabilities ...

MCLEAN, Va., March 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Mission Technologies division was selected to develop an open architecture High-Energy Laser (HEL) weapon ...

MCLEAN, Va., March 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Mission Technologies division was selected to develop an open architecture High-Energy Laser (HEL) weapon ...

The High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) is a weapon system developed by Lockheed Martin capable of engaging targets at the speed of light.

The British Army has fired Raytheon UK's High-Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWS) for the first time at the Radnor Range in Wales, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), its Defence Equipment & Support ...

RTX Corporation successfully tests its High-Energy Laser Weapon System with the British Army, targeting aerial threats. Land vehicle integration and soldier training also part of the milestone.

"Our High-Energy Laser Weapon System has been used in operations globally, and now the British Army is experimenting with this game-changing capability", said James Gray, chief executive and ...