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Lockheed Martin has Successfully Directed an Airborne Laser on a Missile-Shaped Target

Lockheed Martin announced today that the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Airborne Laser (ABL) team has demonstrated the capability to accurately point and focus the elements of the Lockheed Martin-developed Beam Control/Fire Control system on an airborne target.

21 Sep 2007

New Guidance System to Defeat Targets Close to Civilian Assets and Friendly Forces

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] today unveiled the DAGR? a system developed with company funding to defeat targets close to civilian assets and friendly forces due to its precise accuracy and ability to minimize collateral damage. DAGR is a semi-active laser guidance kit that adapts to 2.75-inch/70mm rockets to provide guided-rocket performance comparable to that of the precision-strike laser-guided HELLFIRE II?missile.

20 Sep 2007

Cosmetology and Trichology Courses Offered by India-based Institute of Cosmetic and Laser Surgery

I.C.L.S courses can be done by all graduates who have a keen interest in cosmetology profession as a career. I.C.L.S courses are offered in computerized and modular pattern to suit individual need.

20 Sep 2007

Australian Pilots Under Laser Fire

AUSTRALIA'S largest airline pilot body has called for a national, unified bid to end the dangerous practice of aiming laser lights at aircraft as the number of reported cases escalates.

20 Sep 2007

Laser Technology used in Fire Extinguisher Training

The BullsEye fire extinguisher training system uses laser technology to simulate the discharge of a dry chemical extinguisher for use in OSHA-mandated training.

20 Sep 2007

Boeing's Raygun Jumbo Jet

Senators are planning to cut budgets for the space interceptor portion of the controversial US missile defence programme, according to reports. However, it appears that a complementary scheme to blast enemy ICBMs shortly after takeoff using a giant laser cannon mounted in a jumbo jet will be fully funded.

20 Sep 2007

Radio Waves Offers New Possibility into Smaller and Simpler Equipment

Visible and ultraviolet laser light has been used for years to cool trapped atoms--and more recently larger objects--by reducing the extent of their thermal motion.

20 Sep 2007

New Laser Eye Surgery Device Designed to Improve Current Treatment for Glaucoma

Experts are testing a new laser eye surgery device that is designed to improve upon the current treatment for glaucoma.

20 Sep 2007

Ground-Breaking Technique in Breast Cancer Diagnostics - Photoacoustic Mammoscope

Photoacoustic techniques can supplement conventional imaging techniques in breast cancer diagnostics. From first tests on patients using the ¡¥photoacoustic mammoscope¡¦ developed by the University of Twente, researcher Dr. Srirang Manohar concludes that the images obtained add valuable information about the vascularisation of a tumor. The research has been done in cooperation with the Medisch Spectrum Twente hospital in Enschede, and the results are published in the online journal Optics Express.

19 Sep 2007

Raytheon to Help Improve Laser-Based Systems for U.S. Air Force

Raytheon Co.'s operations in Marlborough has won a contract modification for $15.9 million from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to build an array of individual laser 'sub-apertures' that could act as either transmitters or receivers of laser energy, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

19 Sep 2007