A 30-kw fiber laser developed by Lockheed Martin has disabled a small truck in field tests of an integrated directed-energy weapon system. Other similar demonstrations have typically used less-powerful industrial fiber lasers. The Advanced Test High Energy Asset (Athena) ground prototype burned...
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