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

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

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

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

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

A truck-fired 50 kW laser weapon — an upgrade of the lumbering HEL-MTT — will be test fired in 2018. A 100 kW weapon on a more mobile vehicle — perhaps an 8×8 Stryker or tracked Bradley — will be test ...

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 reportedly developed a silent air defence system capable of taking out Russian drones mid-air with almost no sound or visible trace.

For the first time, British Army regular troops have operated a high-powered laser weapon mounted on an armored combat vehicle. Soldiers from 16 Royal Artillery in Wales used a laser installed on a ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The effort wasn’t a total waste, however. The OICW inspired the M320 grenade launcher and the XM25 air-burst munitions system. The U.S. Army’s Objective Individual ...