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Pentagon’s Megawatt Laser Demo To Highlight Recent Tech Breakthroughs

Smoke rose from a drone after it was shot down by a 50-kW laser mounted on a U.S. Army Stryker vehicle. Credit: U.S. Army ...

Laser-assisted electron scattering seen with circularly polarized light for the first time

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have succeeded in detecting laser-assisted electron scattering (LAES) using ...

The Pentagon wants to field laser weapons at scale within 3 years

Amid waves of Iranian drone attacks, the U.S. Defense Department is pushing to finally field high-energy laser weapons in the ...
The Fabricator

Laser-SAW hybrid welding could reshape thick-plate fabrication

A fabricator that needs to weld thick plate in as few passes as possible often will turn to submerged arc welding (SAW), a legacy process that has dominated heavy fabrication for decades. Variations ...
Janes

Japan completes naval laser trials, begins developing next prototype

Japan has completed a series of shipboard laser trials aboard its long‑serving experimental vessel JS Asuka and will now begin work on a new prototype as part of ...