The future arrived on December 28, 2025 as the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) announced that Iron Beam became the first ...
Portable laser weapons are now in U.S. Army units, promising cheap, rapid defense against drones, rockets, and other small ...
Trump’s Navy chief is calling for giant lasers to be included on new battleships - US has not commissioned a battleship in ...
German defense firms Rheinmetall and MBDA Germany plan to establish a joint venture in ...
The dream of laser weapons has not materialized nearly as fast as the Pentagon once thought it would, but the Navy's top ...
After a year of sea trials, the high-energy laser is moving to further land-based testing before going operational with the German Navy in 2029. It wasn't so long ago that laser weapons were exotic ...
China's Norinco sent its OW5-A50 counter-unmanned aerial vehicle (C-UAV) laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) to a local ...
Two Royal Navy ships are set to be fitted with the weapons from 2027, which offer a more cost-effective alternative to short-range threats.
Following further successful trials of the UK’s DragonFire laser weapon in November last year, which took place at the ...
The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) on Wednesday said he strongly supports putting large-power laser weapons on the ...
Laser beams, robodogs and drone-zapping microwaves, these are the types of weapons that could be deployed on battlefields in the not too distant future. Some are already here. The threat of a wider ...
EOS is planning further high-power laser demonstrations in the coming months to woo customers. Credit: EOS Laser weapons since at least the 1990s have come with the promise of arriving on the ...