John F. Williams/U.S. Navy — -- The U.S. Navy's new laser weapon is up and running in the Persian Gulf, and it is capable of disabling incoming planes or speedboats that could pose a threat ...

The laser gun, known as a Laser Weapon System, or LaWS, is being tested aboard a warship in the Persian Gulf, he said. "It's working pretty well," Greenert said. "Lasers, I think, are a thing of ...

After seven years and $40 million of development, the US Navy has finally sent its prototype laser weapon, one capable of blowing holes clean through UAVs, on patrol throughout the disputed ...

The U.S. Navy successfully tested its new Laser Weapon System (LaWS) in the Persian Gulf. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) released video on Wednesday of the system taking out targets on the sea ...

First it mounted a laser aboard a ship in the Persian Gulf. Now the Navy has publicly unveiled another futuristic weapon: the electromagnetic “rail gun.” In development for years, the weapon ...

TASS/. The US Navy said a laser gun placed at floating base Ponce in the Persian Gulf passed all tests successfully. The power of a pilot model of the laser gun is 30 KW, its development took ...

The Navy plans to install a laser weapon prototype on a ship this summer for at-sea testing in the Persian Gulf ... as well as rapid-fire Gatling guns. Since 2007, the Navy has spent $78 million ...

The Navy's 30-kilowatt solid-state laser aboard the USS Ponce is now being fired in operational scenarios by sailors in the Persian Gulf, marking the first-ever deployment of a sea-based directed ...

A prototype shipboard laser will be deployed on a converted amphibious transport and docking ship in the Persian Gulf, where Iranian fast-attack boats have harassed U.S. warships and where the ...

The United States announced it is sending a ship-board laser attack system to the Persian Gulf for the first time. This new $32 million laser weapon - designed to destroy drones, disable small ...

The Navy plans to install a laser-weapon prototype on a ship this summer for at-sea testing in the Persian Gulf ... tracking system and a massive laser gun on its nose was canceled after more ...