Scientists have developed a method for generating fast, bright proton beams using a high-repetition-rate laser-plasma accelerator. This work, published in Nature Communications, resolves several ...
Chinese researchers have demonstrated high-speed optical communications using surprisingly low laser power from orbit. The ...
Perhaps the most precise method of guiding munitions to a target is with a laser device, ‘painting’ the target so that munitions can lock on and follow the beam. However, in order to do this, military ...
During its Pacific patrol last year, the USS Preble successfully shot down an unmanned aerial target using its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system.
A powerful new ‘force multiplier’ for small units who can now designate targets with standoff from a rucksack-portable drone WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne ...
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – U.S. Army land warfare experts are asking electro-optics engineers at Safran Optics 1 Inc. in Bedford, N.H., for additional next-generation laser target locator systems.