Keeping high-energy laser weapons operational has long depended on specialized technicians and delicate fiber ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wants the U.S. defense industrial base to build ‘tens to hundreds’ of directed energy weapons. Inc. is republishing this story with permission. The original article ...

DoD believes the prototypes could lead to a useful alternative to expensive missiles for intercepting drones and cruise ...

Malaysia has taken its first major step into laser air defense. The Royal Malaysian Air Force says Birdie-X is the country’s ...

The live firing highlighted the Defense Department’s growing interest in weapons that can disable targets with beams of energy rather than bullets or missiles. This article is republished with ...

Once they were the stuff of Star Wars. But a maker of lasers — the kind the U.S. military wants to make a staple on the ...

Germany has taken another major step toward integrating directed-energy weapons into its naval forces.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, the U.S. military's dream of high-energy laser weapons has been perpetually "five years away." Now, the Pentagon says ...

On April 30, the Financial Times reported Israel had sent a version of its 100 KW Iron Beam high-energy laser weapon to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to help Abu Dhabi fend off hundreds of missiles ...

China unveiled a portable laser that burns drones out of the sky. See how this backpack system changes short-range air ...

Artist's conception of Lockheed Martin's Helios directed-energy laser weapon intercepting a drone attack. The economics of modern air defense are broken. Counterdrone systems are one of the ...

Laser weapons are such an entrenched sci-fi trope that it's easy to forget just how real this tech can be (and is). While we're not exactly close to seeing real-life "Star Wars" space battles, the U.S ...