With every U.S. military service developing battlefield lasers, the technology is poised to deliver on a decades-old promise of a relatively inexpensive weapon with unprecedented precision. Laser ...

A long-anticipated high-energy laser weapon will no longer be an option for Air Force special operations gunships after "technical challenges" forced leaders to scrap at least one idea for its use.

SAVANNAH, Ga. - The FBI said a high-powered laser "strike" in southern Georgia caused temporary eye damage to a member of a United States Air Force flight crew, putting the aircraft and its occupants ...

Developing a compact, high-efficiency laser that can be used on a tactical fighter jet presents new challenges in terms of size, weight and power constraints compared with the land systems that have ...

The Air Force is asking industry how it could add Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System technologies to its fleet of counter small-unmanned aircraft systems to better combat small- to medium-sized ...

Air Force investigators are raising the alarm over a significant increase in laser pointers being aimed at aircraft, with more than 9,000 incidents reported last year alone. Personal laser pointers, ...

Laser power measurement and force metrology are interlinked disciplines dedicated to quantifying the interaction between light and matter. In contemporary research, these fields have evolved from ...