After years of putting off the drone threat, the U.S. government is trying to do something about it, but policy is struggling ...

The US Navy’s chief has fully supported directed energy weapons (DE), declaring that the ...

Their laser technology is a descendant of the United States’s Strategic Defense Initiative programme, colloquially known as ...

The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant ...

Laser beams, robodogs and drone-zapping microwaves, these are the types of weapons that could be deployed on battlefields in the not too distant future. Some are already here. The threat of a wider ...

The biggest reason for the lag in development of an operational onboard laser system for US Navy (USN) ships likely has more ...

Imagine a battlefield where missiles are intercepted mid-air with beams of light, drones are neutralized in seconds, and the cost of firing a weapon is measured in pennies rather than millions. This ...

Ukraine has developed a silent, undetectable laser that can take out Russian drones as if “struck by invisible lightning” — and all at a fraction of the cost of similar high-tech weapons made in the ...

EOS notes that it has already received a “world-first” export order for a 100 kW-class laser weapon system for the Netherlands. The firm also has what it calls a binding conditional agreement with a ...

At Fort Sill, OK, soldiers conducted live-fire trials with directed energy weapons and kinetic systems. DE M-SHORAD laser weapon in action at Fort Sill. In Oklahoma, the U.S. Army is taking aim at the ...

The U.S. Navy’s push to mount high‑energy laser weapons on surface ships is no longer a distant concept but a contract‑backed ...