The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant ...

The US Navy’s chief has fully supported directed energy weapons (DE), declaring that the ...

After years of putting off the drone threat, the U.S. government is trying to do something about it, but policy is struggling ...

Directed energy weapons may sound like science fiction, but systems like lasers and microwave beams are very much becoming a ...

When the Federal Aviation Administration closed the airport in El Paso, Texas, and the airspace around it on Feb. 10, 2026, ...

It’s a first for the US Army’s laser weapons. At Fort Sill, Okla., the Army conducted a live-fire exercise with the Directed Energy Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD). The weapon targeted ...

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 ...

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 ...

In light of the successful US military raid on Caracas, Venezuela, that led to the successful capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, President Donald Trump claimed that some form of ...

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 ...