The cost per laser blast is usually estimated at about a dollar a shot. Right now, forces are largely limited to their current arsenal. This means the U.S. and its allies are often forced to use ...

Boeing is building a laser cannon for the U.S. Army, and the new weapon has now proved it will be as capable at sea as on land. The High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD)—basically a ...

THE US is developing its most powerful laser weapon yet capable of blasting ... The weapon will be able to blast objects by focusing a strong beam of light on it, causing it to burn through ...

and it unleashed the most powerful laser blast in history -- besting a record set mere months earlier. The National Ignition Facility (NIF)-- a laser test facility at Lawrence Livermore National ...

Scientists have generated the world's fastest laser pulse, a beam that shoots for 67 attoseconds, or 0.000000000000000067 seconds. The feat improves on the previous record of 80 attoseconds, set ...