Thus laser weapons can blind the enemy, temporarily or permanently, at much greater range than they can do serious physical damage to structures. Our first modest laser has a scorch range of 1300 km; the more SFnal one a scorch range of 2 million km … and the jumbo X-ray laser has a...
Space Weapons in Development Artist rendering of how a TRW designed space laser-equipped satellite might fire a laser at a ballistic missile from long range. Photo courtesy TRW The former U.S. Space Command, which is now part of the U.S. Strategic Command as of June 2002, doesn't hide...
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Yesterday (Nov 6), the U.S. Air Force Research Lab signed a $26.3 million contract with Lockheed Martin to develop high-energy laser weapons that are lightweight and compact enough to be mounted on fighter jets. Lockheed Martin is a defense, aerospace and technology company headquartered in ...
Michael Griffin, the defense undersecretary for research and engineering, has pushed to expand U.S. missile defenses to confront growing Chinese and Russian capabilities and has suggested that the United States should look to directed energy, including laser, weapons in space as one potential...
And lasers are also frequently used in space — not as weapons, but to help scientists conduct highly precise measurements and observations, a group of NASA engineers and designers explained in a panel on June 16 here at Future Con. [The Most Dangerous Space Weapons Ever] If you've ever ma...
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The laser, known as the Laser Weapons System (LaWS), may seem as though it were pulled straight from a James Bond movie, but it's entirely functional and can shoot with stunning accuracy, the U.S. Navy told CNN. The LaWS is currently deployed aboard the USS Ponce, an amphibious transpo...
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That's the goal of a project calledBreakthrough Starshot— the brainchild of a Russian billionaire, a former director ofNASA's Ames Research Center and a group of high-level physicists and engineers. They hope to send hundreds of tiny spacecraft to the Alpha Centauri star system, where they...