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The Australian Ministry of Defense has demonstrated the world’s most powerful portable high-energy laser weapon capable of shooting down drones with high accuracy. Drones have become a serious threat, so new means are being developed to combat them – and lasers are becoming an increasingly attractive addition to the arsenal of warfare. The advantage of […]
The UK Ministry of Defense has decided to show footage taken during the testing of the classified Dragonfire laser weapon, which took place in January this year in Scotland. The video allows us to draw certain conclusions about the design of the prototype and demonstrates the capabilities of the target acquisition system in action. The […]
Scientists from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), together with colleagues from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, have discovered an amazing phenomenon. A short-term exposure to tellurite glass with a femtosecond laser turned it into a light-sensitive semiconductor. This makes it possible to produce photosensitive glass without any additional materials or effort, which scientists […]
NASA has sent a video of a cat to Earth using a laser from deep space, Space.com reports. In the ultra-high resolution video, you can see Tatters, a ginger cat, running after the dot of a laser pointer. The video was sent as part of the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment. DSOC technology allows […]
Scientists have found a way to increase the power of lasers by 9 times without reducing the quality of the beam. This breakthrough will make it possible to create long-range laser weapons capable of melting targets. A team of researchers from the University of South Australia, the University of Adelaide, and Yale University argue that […]