Amid waves of Iranian drone attacks, the U.S. Defense Department is pushing to finally field high-energy laser weapons in the ...

The U.S. Army's 300 kilowatt Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser system won't transition to a program of ...

Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy systems moved from test ranges into real air defense networks and forced ...

As drone swarms overwhelm conventional defenses, the U.S. Navy is deploying HELIOS, a 60-kW laser that can destroy targets at the speed of light for the cost of electricity.

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Laser weapons have become super portable. Defense and security company NUBURU's Lyocon subsidiary has adapted industrial ...

A CBS 60 Minutes broadcast has drawn fresh attention to a secret 2024 test in Norway in which a government scientist operated a machine that emitted powerful pulses of microwave energy, an experiment ...

The emergence of plasma-based directed-energy weapon systems necessitates a reconceptualization of deterrence theory. Plasma ...

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Attalon, Inc., a provider of mission-critical optical and directed energy technologies, today announced its launch as an independent standalone company ...

High-energy lasers can burn drones in the sky like a blowtorch. But they can be stymied by weather, and making them at scale ...

The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant attention this week when the use of an anti-drone laser system led to the ...

In light of the successful US military raid on Caracas, Venezuela, that led to the successful capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, President Donald Trump claimed that some form of ...