The future arrived on December 28, 2025 as the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) announced that Iron Beam became the first ...

Trump’s Navy chief is calling for giant lasers to be included on new battleships - US has not commissioned a battleship in ...

The US Navy (USN) is investing heavily in laser weapons to enhance the lethality and protection of its in-service and future ...

Portable laser weapons are now in U.S. Army units, promising cheap, rapid defense against drones, rockets, and other small ...

German defense firms Rheinmetall and MBDA Germany plan to establish a joint venture in ...

The dream of laser weapons has not materialized nearly as fast as the Pentagon once thought it would, but the Navy's top ...

After a year of sea trials, the high-energy laser is moving to further land-based testing before going operational with the German Navy in 2029. It wasn't so long ago that laser weapons were exotic ...

Drone swarms can quickly overwhelm defenses and are difficult to combat effectively, but China's new microwave system could ...

China's Norinco sent its OW5-A50 counter-unmanned aerial vehicle (C-UAV) laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) to a local ...

Following further successful trials of the UK’s DragonFire laser weapon in November last year, which took place at the ...

According to Rheinmetall, the German Navy’s directed energy weapon can engage a wide range of targets, including guided missiles, rockets, and drone swarms. The German Navy is getting closer to having ...

Laser beams, robodogs and drone-zapping microwaves, these are the types of weapons that could be deployed on battlefields in the not too distant future. Some are already here. The threat of a wider ...