The Pentagon’s push to field laser weapons has shifted from laboratory curiosity to operational reality, with recent tests showing systems that can track, target, and disable threats in real time.

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," ...

Japan's development of a laser weapon comes as it faces China's growing military capabilities.

As Russia intensifies drone and missile strikes, Ukraine has unveiled a domestically built laser air-defense system called ...

In a new, exclusive interview, a former defense department staffer says she was hit with a directed energy weapon in 2015.

Like so many conflicts before it, the Russo-Ukraine war has forced both sides to innovate. Since they have been able to gain ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s no exaggeration to say that the U.S. Army is laser-focused on taking out cheap, deadly drones like the ones that have rained down on Ukrainian battlefields and Middle East bases. The service now ...

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 ...

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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 ...