The US Navy has revealed new details about a laser weapon test conducted last ...

The U.S. Navy has quietly crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction, using a high energy laser to burn ...

The US Navy has confirmed that a frontline destroyer has successfully used a ship-mounted laser weapon to defeat multiple uncrewed aerial threats during a recent at-sea demonstration.

The Navy sees HELIOS and other directed energy weapons as critical capabilities, but has faced persistent challenges in ...

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington, DC. U.S. Army Releases Performance Details As Laser Weapons Enter Service is available to both ...

Israeli defence technology firm Rafael says its Iron Beam directed energy weapon has achieved operational status following ...

LIGHT, Inc. recently announced it will showcase a newly developed 70kW-class Laser Weapon System, alongside its 30kW and 10kW high-energy lasers, at the World Defense Show in Riyadh in February 2026.

Drone swarms can quickly overwhelm defenses and are difficult to combat effectively, but China's new microwave system could ...

Trump’s Navy chief is calling for giant lasers to be included on new battleships - US has not commissioned a battleship in ...

The only real laser weapon that saw service during the 20th century was a low-power laser used by the Royal Navy during the 1982 Falklands War to temporarily dazzle and distract enemy pilots. Not that ...

This article originally appeared in Popular Science. On Sept. 15, defense giant Lockheed Martin announced that it had delivered a 300-kw laser to the Department of Defense. Developed for a program ...