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January 15, 2025

“Follow the Free” on Your Laser Range Day

The cost of shots and the cost of targets. Are you letting laser target cost get out of control?

November 13, 2024

“Tactically Relevant” Lasers

What are they? and How do we make them?

November 8, 2024

Power? or Precision?

Both Can Take Down a Threat but What are the Tradeoffs?

October 23, 2024

Your Laser Testing Costs Too Much

How you can do it cheaper AND get shot data too.

October 23, 2024

Dare to Test Laser Weapons Systems Differently

How Reusable High Energy Laser Targets Can Help Laser Weapons Systems Perform even Better.

A SemQuest SLIM 8 target mounted on a drone.

October 22, 2024

What’s In Your Beam Path?

High Energy Lasers have very sophisticated means of getting a laser beam produced and propagating toward the desired target. Sometimes things get in the middle of the beam path and aren’t noticed!

A SemQuest target measurement of a laser beam with an object obscuring part of the laser beam.

October 10, 2024

How’s Your Laser?

How’s your High Energy Laser (HEL) doing? Is it able to neutralize drone threats out to 10 kilometers? How many shots can it take before one of its components overheats? Learn about laser diagnostics in this article.

Ukrainian troops with a downed Russian Shahed kamikaze drone. These are now being supplemented with Chinese-made drones. Image Credit: Forbes