AeroVironment tested its Locust laser on the USS George H.W. Bush in a one-day trial to speed up shipboard drone defense.

Somewhere in the Atlantic, the flight deck of the USS George H.W. Bush became a proving ground for a weapon that fires at the speed of light and costs almost nothing per shot. In a test disclosed in ...

For the first time on record, a laser weapon fired from the flight deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier has shot down drones in a live-fire exercise. The weapon, known as the LOCUST Laser Weapon System, ...

High-energy laser weapons are a natural fit for large, power-rich aircraft carriers—with limits. When U.S. Navy leaders declared that “the dream of a laser on every ship can become a real one” earlier ...