BAE Systems has been invaluable in helping us not only integrate the laser system, but also connect this to a wider battlefield network to act as part of an integrated force. We’re really looking ...

The Pentagon agency also said the aircraft, dubbed Airborne Laser Testbed, had “destroyed” a missile Feb. 3, but it did not release the information until Thursday night. Advertisement ...

The system, called Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (ALMDS) enables shallow-water warships such as the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) have a much safer sphere of operations as commanders ...

A Pentagon-funded team has successfully fired for the first time a powerful laser meant to fly aboard a modified 747 as part of a U.S. ballistic missile defense shield.

The Cessna 208B testbed takes off for a test of the laser. In the boxes: the laser system, the ADS-B track of one of the test flights and a drone as viewed by the laser’s targeting system.

A converted Boeing 747 equipped with a powerful laser failed to shoot down a mock enemy ballistic missile, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said on Thursday, the system's second botched ...

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Melbourne, Florida is being awarded a $35,514,955 firm-fixed price contract for the fabrication, integration, test and production of airborne laser mine detection ...

Boeing and its directed-energy cohort say the 747-mounted laser weapon continues to pass milestones in testing. But what of it? Airborne Laser sticks to test regimen - CNET ...

Demo video of Boeing's YAL-1 Airborne Laser mounted to a 747-400: Boeing demonstrated the new Avenger Laser System at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico last month with impressive results.

"The Airborne Laser Testbed team has made history with this experiment," said Greg Hyslop, vice president and general manager of Boeing Missile Defense Systems, in a statement released Friday.

It’s worth noting that the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation told Global Times that its ground-based LW-30 laser defense weapon system, first unveiled to the public in ...