(THE CONVERSATION) Nations around the world are rapidly developing high-energy laser weapons for military missions on land and sea, and in the air and space. Visions of swarms of small, inexpensive ...

Laser weapons go mobile as the US Army takes delivery of two 20-kW, anti-drone Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV)-mounted Laser-Oriented Counter-UAS System (LOCUST) Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) from ...

Militaries spent decades trying to turn light into a weapon. In 2025, introduction of several lasers show how fast technology ...

Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, installing a massive high-energy laser on a dedicated test ship and ...

The USS Portland test-fires a laser weapon. The photo captured infrared light to make the beam visible. Staff Sgt. Donald Holbert/Marine Corps via AP Nations around the world are rapidly developing ...

US President Donald Trump unveils plan for a Trump-class battleship as part of a sweeping push to modernize the US Navy and ...

Laser weapons are transitioning from science fiction to battlefield reality, offering precision strikes, silent kills, and ...

According to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Pentagon spends around $1 billion per year developing directed energy weapons to counter threats such as drones and missiles. The agency ...

And there are other laser weapons that are being studied, smaller-scale ones--there's the tactical laser, and then there's Zeus, which is not a weapon per se. Beason: Right, the Advanced Tactical ...

The laser weapon system demonstrator is seen on the U.S. Navy ship Portland. (Northrop Grumman) WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman has been in talks with the Pentagon and the military services on a modular ...

Ramey's passion for videos games blossomed at the age of 8, with medieval fantasy games such as Runescape and Skyrim. What inspired him to become a writer however, was those games' ability to allow ...