Portable laser weapons are now in U.S. Army units, promising cheap, rapid defense against drones, rockets, and other small ...

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 ...

The US military released this video of its YAL-1 airborne laser engaging a missile surrogate, all in mid-air. Guaranteed, it’s the most laser action you’ll see today. We don’t know much about this ...

Russia spent decades nurturing a secretive airborne laser program that promised to blind satellites and shield its forces from prying eyes. Now that rare jet, long touted as a symbol of high-tech ...

The YAL-1 conducted its final flight in 2012 before being scrapped two years later. Now the MDA is revisiting the potential for airborne lasers. Credit: Bobbi Zapka/U.S. Air Force Ten years after the ...

Air and space were linked together in a recent flight test by General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) and Kepler Communications where a laser system was used to communicate between a standard ...

Supporters of the YAL-1A Airborne Laser can live to fight another day for their program after meeting the first of two make-or-break milestones for the Boeing 747-mounted ballistic missile defense ...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) – The Pentagon has mothballed a laser-equipped jumbo jet after 15 years and $5 billion worth of research to develop an airborne missile defense system. Budget cuts ...

The Boeing 747 Airborne Laser project has been mothballed despite successfully destroying a ballistic missile and other targets. But don’t despair, pew-pew destruction fans: the US Missile Defense ...

ATLANTA, April 24 (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Friday it has begun flight tests of its Airborne Laser, designed to zap missiles soon after they are launched, with the full weapons system on the ...