MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. -- A recent Public Health audit of Madigan's laser safety program resulted in it being lauded as the best of its kind across Army Medicine.

The Department Of Energy (DOE) proposes to shut down the Omega laser which was first built to help achieve fusion. A ‘three-year rampdown’ plan for the laser has been initiated and eventually the ...

On 2 December 2025, a containerized prototype high-energy laser system was confirmed to be installed on the aft deck of JS ...

Modifications to Air Force Special Operations Command's (AFSOC) fleet of AC-130 gunships means that even if a planned August test of the new Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL) system aboard an AC-130J ...

The Airborne Laser program can be tracked back to the Reagan years, and after billions in development dollars were spent and a custom-built 747 prototype was built, what was to be a super-weapon that ...

Why shoot bullets or missiles, when you can dissolve your enemies with a super laser? It’s a potentially devastating weapon that needs no ammunition, can shoot lasers right out of the sky, and can run ...

Editor's note: A name that was incorrect in a previous version of this story has been corrected. In the more than 10 years of working with directed energy, the airborne laser program continues to do ...