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Army drops its 300 kW laser program, its most powerful to date

The U.S. Army has walked away from its 300-kilowatt laser weapon program, the Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy ...

The US Army is already ditching its most powerful laser weapon yet

The U.S. Army’s 300 kilowatt Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser system won't transition to a program of ...
Aviation Week Network

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 ...
Yahoo

AC-130 Gunship Laser Weapon Program's Future Is Looking Blurry

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 ...
Jalopnik

The Airborne Laser May Rise Again But It Will Look Very Different

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 ...