The Ministry of Defence has confirmed plans to accelerate the deployment of the cutting-edge 'DragonFire Laser Directed ...

It was previously unconfirmed which class of warship the under-development UK air defence laser would be installed upon.

The United Kingdom is accelerating the development of its DragonFire laser weapon. The Royal Navy aims to equip four ...

The British government in its Spring Statement in March announced plans to spend at least 10% of the Ministry of Defence ...

The UK’s Ministry of Defense has committed to accelerating DragonFire Laser Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) into operational ...

The UK is moving forward with plans to deploy its new DragonFire laser weapon on warships. Lasers could offer a cheap defense ...

In gestation for close to a decade, DragonFire is a laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) system developed by MBDA, Leonardo and QinetiQ in collaboration with the Defence Science and Technology ...

The laser-directed energy weapon known as DragonFire ... “Previously, we inherited an unfunded plan for a single destroyer to get the DragonFire system, and we're now announcing today a fully ...

Claims by Ukraine military official of a newly deployed combat laser joins a larger trend in directed energy weapons on the ...

Military top brass hope DragonFire could replace multi-million pound missiles like the navy’s Sea Viper system used against ... like long range laser and microwave weapons – collectively ...

The latest news on the United Kingdom. The country is ramping up efforts to deploy its Dragonfire laser weapon on Royal Navy destroyers by 2027, significantly advancing the timeline for this ...