Inleap Photonics is adapting its industrial laser beam steering for defense purposes, seeing technical advantages over existing approaches.

Perhaps the most precise method of guiding munitions to a target is with a laser device, ‘painting’ the target so that munitions can lock on and follow the beam. However, in order to do this, military ...

LASER TRACKING: The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Boeing successfully fired the Airborne Laser (ABL) system's tracking laser in-flight at an airborne target for the first time March 15, the ...