Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy has forward-deployed the laser-armed destroyer USS Preble in Japan since October 2024. The ...

China appears to be expanding its experimentation with directed-energy weapons at sea, after new images circulating on Chinese social media showed the LY-1 laser system mounted on the open deck of a ...

Israel unveiled the Iron Beam laser defense system that intercepts missiles and drones at the speed of light for just $3 per ...

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

The age of laser weapons looks to have officially dawned. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems says that, for the first time in history, a high-energy laser system has been used to destroy multiple drone ...

The Royal Thai Army has unveiled a high-energy laser weapon designed to counter the increasing threats posed by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Classified as a directed energy weapon (DEW), the ...

LONDON, Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon UK, part of RTX (RTX)'s (NYSE: RTX) Raytheon business, announced that its High-Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWS) completed a successful live-firing with ...

Britain has successfully fired a laser weapon from an army combat vehicle for the first time, the UK government announced today. During trials, the system “neutralised” targets at distances in excess ...

For the first time, British Army regular troops have operated a high-powered laser weapon mounted on an armored combat vehicle. Soldiers from 16 Royal Artillery in Wales used a laser installed on a ...

Here’s What to Remember: In November of 2013, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command used the HEL MD, a vehicle-mounted high energy laser, to successfully engage ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The challenge now is to get lasers down to size. And, with delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, when that will be is anybody’s guess—but... The laser program, ...