The U.S. is losing the hypersonic arms race to China—but a formidable, new weapon could change the game. When the U.S. Navy’s ...

General Atomics has confirmed the existence of a new airborne laser program being developed for the U.S. military's fleet of MQ-9 drones.

British Army soldiers successfully tracked, targeted and destroyed swarms of small drones in the latest test of a Directed ...

Raytheon is developing directed energy weapons designed to take down drones with precision and speed. We’re revisiting this ...

Few hours before he unleashed another round of terror bombing against civilian targets in Ukraine, the Russian ruler told members of his defence commission that the arms race must be stepped up.

The newly revealed pod contains a 25kW distributed gain laser, scalable up to 300kW in future configurations.

No more 'spray and pray', as soldiers and aviators get laser-guided sidearms upgrade, ushering in a new era for military pistols.

From tungsten in armor-piercing rounds to gallium in radars, the U.S. Defense Department has built a warfighting enterprise ...

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Military officials could look to the potential of technology like high-powered lasers and microwave beams to stop missiles ...