After years of putting off the drone threat, the U.S. government is trying to do something about it, but policy is struggling ...
The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant ...
The U.S. Navy’s push to mount high‑energy laser weapons on surface ships is no longer a distant concept but a contract‑backed ...
The Navy sees HELIOS and other directed energy weapons as critical capabilities, but has faced persistent challenges in ...
A few months from now, Peter Anthony Schlesinger hopes to zap a laser beam at a couple of chickens or other animals in a cage a few dozen yards away. If all goes as planned, the chickens will be ...
AIDC displayed its new high-energy directed energy laser weapon at TADTE 2025. (Janes/Akhil Kadidal) Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) has unveiled a new ‘high-energy' ...
China has taken a significant step forward in research into high-power directed-energy technology that analysts say could one day be used to disrupt satellite communications networks such as SpaceX’s ...