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Pentagon Needs to Start An “Energetics Renaissance”

The final comment in a June 2018 National Defense article, “Pentagon Set to Boost Spending on High-Tech Armaments,” was perhaps the most telling: “If anybody tells you that the future is nothing but lasers on the battlefield … they are not very well informed. There is a place for directed energy and there is a

Navy Uses WWII Era Test Tunnel to Develop High Energy Laser Weapons

The Navy’s top laser experts transformed a tunnel crucial to gun range operations during World War II into a vital new capability for testing laser technologies, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) announced April 21. For years, civilian scientists – including those who developed and installed the Laser Weapon System aboard USS PONCE (AFSB[I]