The current LOCUST system delivers "hard kills" with a 20-kilowatt beam, meaning it can physically destroy drones mid-flight.

An curved arrow pointing right. In this video of an August test, Lockheed Martin's ATHENA laser weapon system burns down five drones. Laser weapons have huge advantages for the US military since ...

The U.S. Air Force's vaunted Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) program closed out without ever reaching its goal of testing a laser-directed energy weapon on a fighter.

Lockheed Martin has produced a one-off “mock-up” of the Russian anti-aircraft missile and gun system, Pantsir-S1.

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