Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy ...

Inspired by science fiction but grounded in modern engineering, we examine how a new generation of laser-based air defense is ...

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 ...

Developed over more than a decade by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense’s Directorate of Defense Research and Development, Iron Beam represents a new layer in ...

Whenever you hear a military general, particularly one from the global north, say “modernization,” it is understood that they are referring to the development and integration of next-generation ...

Elbit Systems expects the Iron Beam system it is co-developing for the Israeli military to gain interest abroad, while also pursuing an airborne laser system, Chief Executive Bezhalel Machlis said.

Statement: Drones reported across the nation, including around the U.S. Capitol, have directed-energy weapons that have a “space-based laser generating system that can create pestilence.” In a winding ...

The USS Preble successfully test fires the HELIOS directed-energy weapon at an unmanned aerial drone at an unreported time and location in 2024. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense Feb. 5 ...

The UK has unveiled an energy weapon under development that it says could take out a swarm of drones for well under a dollar a shot.

A Jan. 8 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a fast-food restaurant that burned down in a wooded area. "This is a McDonalds (sic) in California that was just destroyed by a forest fire," ...

Apollo Micro Systems gains DRDO approval for two Directed Energy Weapon technologies, enhancing indigenous defence ...

Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine has dramatically changed the energy and security policy assumptions of European countries. Finland and Sweden have abandoned the last vestiges of their non-aligned ...