New systems could be introduced within the next few months Ukraine continues to develop laser weapon projects, with the Armed ...

Ukraine may deploy combat lasers for air defense within 2 to 3 months to counter FPVs and Shahed drones, according to ...

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 battlefield — is rolling out a component from its Bloomfield plant that will ...

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

After months of bold promises about its directed energy weapon ambitions, the U.S. military is putting its money where its mouth is. The U.S. Defense Department’s published a “skinny” version at its ...

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

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

Lockheed Martin is set to develop a tactical containerized 500 kW laser weapon system to provide combatant commanders with ...

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 ...

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

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 ...