Concept art from Lockheed Martin showing a notional sixth-generation stealth fighter firing a high-energy laser weapon. Lockheed Martin Separately in 2020, then-Under Secretary of Defense for ...

These included Lockheed Martin's Layered Laser Defense (LLD), a ground-based high-power laser weapon system that the defense giant claims is capable of countering targets ranging from unmanned ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In this video of an August test, Lockheed Martin's ATHENA laser weapon system burns down five drones. Laser weapons have huge advantages for the US military since ...

The General Atomics booth at Sea Air Space featured a display of an MQ-9 with an underwing laser pod firing at several ...

The compact High-Energy Laser pod for MQ-9B is designed with Fleet Defense and Counter-UAS roles in mind. General Atomics has ...

Until now. Quietly and without great fanfare the laser weapon has arrived, and warfare will never be the same. This week Lockheed Martin, the defense contractor behind the F-35 Joint Strike ...

The optics stabilize and shape the weapon laser’s beam as it is aimed by the nose turret’s computer-controlled telescope at a target missile. Lockheed Martin Last February, off the California ...

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