But focus too much on matters of geopolitics, and you can lose sight of something arguably even more profound: Laser guns are ...

Iranian weapon debris, blown to pieces or mechanically crippled, keeps dropping from the Middle East sky. For that, we can ...

In-demand lasers and microwave weapons kill drones by using either burning hot beams or electromagnetic force fields.

As conflict escalates following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, and Iran’s subsequent retaliatory strikes, reports have emerged that Israel may have used laser weapons to shoot down rockets fired ...

The U.S. Army is accelerating its deployment of directed-energy weapons designed to burn incoming rockets, drones, and ...

Israel, the US, and other countries have worked on this technology. However, recent advances in technology have enabled ...

Imagine a battlefield where missiles are intercepted mid-air with beams of light, drones are neutralized in seconds, and the cost of firing a weapon is measured in pennies rather than millions. This ...

The DragonFire system successfully shot down drones travelling at up to 650km/h at a range in Scotland, just as a £316m contract for its deployment on a Type 45 destroyer by 2027 was awarded. The ...

A practical laser weapon, which only costs about a dollar a round, has tremendous advantages, especially against drones and other small, fast, inexpensive targets that don't warrant a countermeasure ...

The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant attention this week when the use of an anti-drone laser system led to the ...

People keep mistakenly trespassing at this U.S. armed forces laser testing site hidden away in the Arizona desert. The military is urging caution.