The U.S. Navy already has a laser weapon installed on a guided-missile destroyer, and the Pentagon is pushing to field combat ...

A directed energy demonstration is expected to occur during the summer of 2028, as part of a series of planned Golden ...

Congress wants the Navy's HELIOS laser in a container. See why this move aims to give warships flexible, drone-killing power ...

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 ...

A new pilot program will install “high-energy lasers and high-powered microwave systems” at major bases around the U.S.

A strange scene over the Black Sea adds an interesting wrinkle to the laser dazzlers now spreading across modern warfare.

The U.S.military is paving the way for the regular deployment of high-energy laser weapons on American soil for air defense amid the expanding threat of low-cost weaponized drones. The Federal ...

Artist rendering of the Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser. (Lockheed Martin) Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons ...

Soldier takes cover behind a building during training exercise. - Wikimedia Commons/Cpl David A. Perez, cropped and resized, Public Domain. Across the United States, servicepeople and scientists alike ...

In 1995, the Japanese cult behind the deadly sarin gas subway attack was in touch with a California-based laser manufacturer.