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

Laser weapons are transitioning from science fiction to battlefield reality, offering precision strikes, silent kills, and ...

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 ...

Militaries spent decades trying to turn light into a weapon. In 2025, introduction of several lasers show how fast technology ...

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 ...

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," ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

The British Army has successfully tested a Radiofrequency Directed Energy Weapon (RF DEW) that took out multiple swarms of drones simultaneously and near instantaneously using high-frequency radio ...

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 ...