U.S. Army, Navy Ramp Up Interest In Electric Fiber-Laser Weapons

Lockheed Martin has received a $25 million contract to build and test a truck-mounted, 60-kw electric laser for the U.S. Army, while the Navy is looking at integrating the same technology onto a helicopter for airborne laser weapon demonstrations. Both systems will use spectrally beam-combined fiber...

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