Northrop Grumman’s High-Energy Laser Bomber Concept Featured In Defense Department-Wide Exercises
El Segundo, CA — Next generation bombers equipped with a high-energy-laser-based defensive system and other advanced weapons could perform a variety of new interdiction, strike and special forces missions according to a new virtual bomber concept unveiled recently by Northrop Grumman Corporation.
Northrop Grumman is the U.S. Air Force’s prime contractor for the B-2 stealth bomber, the flagship of the nation’s long range strike arsenal.
The company demonstrated its new high-energy laser (HEL) bomber concept Sept. 26-27 during the Advanced Concepts Event (ACE) ‘07, an annual virtual war-gaming exercise staged by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate, Albuquerque, N.M.
