Video by Sgt. Zack Stine | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 08.06.2025
Col. Adam Miller, deputy director for Directed Energy, RCCTO, Col. Marc Pelini, director, AMD FCT, John Mason, acting Directed Energy Technologies Division chief, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and John Garrity, vice president, Blue Halo, participated in a panel discussion of directed energy related topics for space and missile defense capabilities at the 2025 Space and Missile......
Video by Bradley T Bowman | Air Force Research Laboratory | 06.08.2021
THOR (Tactical High-power Operational Responder) is a prototype Directed Energy (DE) weapon used to disable the electronics in drones, and was specifically engineered to counter multiple targets – such as a drone swarm – with rapid results....
Video by Bradley T Bowman | Air Force Research Laboratory | 02.03.2021
SSPIDR is a series of Integrated Demonstrations and Technology Maturation efforts at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate to address space-based power collection and transmission capabilities. Space solar power beaming is not a new concept; yet until recently, the technology did not have a clear path forward. In conjunction with primary industry partner......
Video by Ronald Bailey | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 03.04.2020
U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command High Energy Laser Mobile Test Truck engineers engage with U.S. Military Academy cadets during live-fire demonstrations March 4-5, 2020, at West Point, New York. Video has been modified for security reasons....
Video by Samantha Tyler | U.S. Army Materiel Command | 04.24.2019
Under Secretary of the U.S. Army Ryan D. McCarthy promotes the director of Hypersonics, Directed Energy, Space and Rapid Acquisition, to lieutenant general Apr. 24 at the Bob Jones Auditorium, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. Lt. Gen. L. Neil Thurgood thanked his family, friends and mentors for their support....
Video by John Drew Hamilton | White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs | 10.25.2018
A short production outlining Air Force experimentation on White Sands Missile Range with the use of high powered microwave and laser systems to shoot down small unmanned aircraft....
Video by John Drew Hamilton | White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs | 10.25.2018
Air force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation conduct an experiment looking at the use of lasers and high powered microwave against small unmanned systems. Includes B-roll and interviews with Dr. Michael Jirjis and Tom Lockhart system components obscured for ITAR compliance, test data removed for security reasons...
Video by Jamal Beck | Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate | 03.22.2018
Members of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate attended DE2DC from March 19 to 22, 2018. They provided static displays, panel members and demonstration videos featuring the Laser-Induced Plasma Effect, Solid-State Active Denial System, and several other projects representing the JNLWD’s Non-Lethal Directed Energy Weapons portfolio. This video is a compilation of those shown at the exhibition....
