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.

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 ...

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 ...

Beam Control/Fire Control system will aim and fire a high-energy laser at a target missile in its boost phase. Raytheon conducted a “first light” test of the Track Illuminator Laser (TILL) one week ...

The US Air Force has started preparing to rapidly stage a demonstration of a highly mature laser weapon system (LWS) for an unspecified “airborne vehicle”, with the potential for a follow-on ...

January 30, 2006 Boeing Missile Defense Systems (MDS) has taken delivery of a U.S. Air Force's C-130H transport aircraft to begin preparations for the creation of the first airborn laser gunship under ...

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 ...

After a trial program, which was limited to 60 days and 12 FBI field offices, the FBI has expanded its lasing program nationwide to prevent debilitating injuries to pilots as a result of powerful ...

FORT PIERCE — Three students tinkered with a network of mirror lenses and prisms until a steady green laser beam shot across their work station. At one point, the laser splits into two streams, then ...

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 ...