The Navy's new Laser Weapon System (LaWS) is essentially a silent ray gun that brings a huge wrath onto electronic targets of all kinds, namely drones. SEE ALSO: NASA's drone killer does not play ...

A Navy spokesperson said it has not released any videos showing the testing of the laser, which has not been permanently deployed on ships. But the video shared on social media is an AI creation ...

That's finally changing, though. The Army's high energy laser program is moving forward, and the U.S. Navy has been testing its HELIOS system on the USS Preble (DDG 88). The Navy's High Energy ...

The American Navy has released a new photo of the ... a 20 mm Phalanx CIWS system, 25 mm machine guns, and the HELIOS laser. Read also: Russia conducts nuclear missile drills amid rising global ...

Yet the guns hadn't totally disappeared from ... Also missing was a 150-kilowatt laser, suggesting the U.S. Navy continues to second guess the future of directed energy weapons (DEWs), at least ...

The US Navy is helping to eliminate the need for a human operator to counter drone swarm attacks. An effort led by the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) used AI to make laser weapons better able to ...

The US Navy demonstrated its new HELIOS laser weapon that intercepts enemy drones, missiles, and sensors. The Pentagon’s annual Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) report shows the ...

In late 2024, the US Navy tested the HELIOS laser weapon ... to be more cost-effective than traditional naval guns and missiles. Shipborne laser weapons are mainly designed for close-in defense ...

ORLANDO, Fla., February 24, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Laser Photonics Corporation (LPC) (NASDAQ: LASE), a leading global developer of industrial laser systems for cleaning and other material ...