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

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

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

The Pentagon authorized an anti-drone laser against a suspected Mexican drone over El Paso, Texas, this week. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Thom Shanker of the Project for Media and National Security.

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington, DC. U.S. Army Releases Performance Details As Laser Weapons Enter Service is available to both ...

Directed energy weapons may sound like science fiction, but systems like lasers and microwave beams are very much becoming a ...

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

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 ...

After a year of sea trials, the high-energy laser is moving to further land-based testing before going operational with the German Navy in 2029. It wasn't so long ago that laser weapons were exotic ...

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 ...