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US zaps drone using powerful laser weapon with 5-mile range in secret tests
The United States Navy has reportedly tested its HELIOS laser weapon on an aerial target at a unknown location sometime in ...
Laser focused: Tech startup in Oak Ridge has 'holy grail' tool for enriching uranium
As the city of Oak Ridge races to once again be the U.S. capital of uranium enrichment, one company hopes to commercialize a ...
Picture of US Navy's laser weapon 'Helios' surfaces. Here's all about it
The US Navy successfully tested the Helios laser weapon against a drone from the USS Preble. Developed by Lockheed Martin, ...
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China secretly building world’s largest nuclear fusion laser, US satellite exposes
Satellite images reveal China is building a massive laser fusion facility, which can be used in nuclear weapons research as ...
China is building a giant laser facility to master near-limitless clean energy, satellite images appear to show
The X-shaped building in southwestern China could help China pull ahead in the race to master a futuristic clean energy ...
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US Navy Lasers
In 2014, the US Navy installed its first prototype SSL (solid state laser) capable of countering surface craft and unmanned ...
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Powerful Ultraviolet Laser Reveals How Particles Move Through Diamonds
Diamonds and similar materials have the quality to be transparent in visible and infrared light. To study the motion of ...
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New laser-based artificial neuron processes enormous data sets at high speed
Scientists have developed a new kind of laser-based artificial neuron that mimics a biological nerve cell. This artificial ...
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U.S. Navy HELIOS laser test underscores greater advancements in Directed Energy Weapons
The U.S. Navy’s High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system faced its first airborne ...
What is US Navy's HELIOS laser weapon that destroys drones in seconds?
The US Navy’s HELIOS laser weapon, a cutting-edge directed energy system, has demonstrated its potential in recent tests, ...
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China explores using orbiting lasers to power spacecraft on the moon
Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences HELSINKI — China could look to laser power transmission from lunar orbit to supply spacecraft on the moon and solve one of the big challenges for its lunar ...
USS Preble Fires HELIOS Laser, Proving High-Energy Weapons Are Closer to Naval Combat Reality
The HELIOS system, installed in 2022, is designed to neutralize drones, disable enemy sensors, and potentially counter ...