A single Stinger missile costs roughly $400,000. A Patriot interceptor runs closer to $4 million. The small drones they are increasingly being asked to shoot down can be built for a few hundred ...

After months of bold promises about its directed energy weapon ambitions, the U.S. military is putting its money where its mouth is. This funding, if approved, would not just mark a major increase ...

Sometime in the last several months, a laser or microwave weapon turret arrived at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota ...

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. Subscribe here. For decades, the U.S. military’s dream ...

This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. The cruise missile-killing high-energy laser weapon the ...

Artist’s rendering of an MQ-9B SkyGuardian drone disabling several attack drones with an integrated laser weapon pod. (General Atomics) Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a ...

The Pentagon has announced that they employ specialized energy weapons for defense, seemingly vindicating researchers who’d long warned about the tech. The Department of War’s Chief Technology Officer ...

As conflict escalates following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, and Iran’s subsequent retaliatory strikes, reports have emerged that Israel may have used laser weapons to shoot down rockets fired ...

The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant attention this week when the use of an anti-drone laser system led to the ...

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