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Lasers could replace sailors in peeling old paint off ships
Sailors could soon be replaced by lasers in removing old paint from Navy ships.
By Sarah Sicard
Griffin ‘extremely skeptical’ of airborne lasers for missile defense
"I’m extremely skeptical that we can put a large laser on an aircraft and use it to shoot down an adversary missile, even from fairly close," says Mike Griffin.
By Aaron Mehta
Nobel laureate wants to kill off killer robots
In mid-November the parties to the Convention on Conventional Weapons will begin meeting in Geneva and they could start talks over limiting lethal artificial intelligence devices.
By Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press
Here’s when the Army wants 50kW lasers on Strykers
Program demos three years ago were at the 2kW level. Since then 5kw lasers have been experimented with in Europe.
By Todd South
Pentagon scientists are making talking plasma laser balls for use as non-lethal weapons
Sounds can now move through the laser frequencies, and developers expect a usable weapon in the next five years.
By Todd South