Nato is deploying “unjammable” laser systems to defend top-secret military communications from hybrid warfare attacks by ...

The U.K. Ministry of Defence recently tested the DragonFire laser weapon at a facility in Scotland, destroying high-speed drones with its targeted energy technology. Why it matters: Militaries have ...

The breakthrough of the last week is only the beginning of the changes that operational military lasers will accomplish for the IDF. After the announcement that the IDF’s new laser defense system has ...

A day after the Department of Transportation urged pilots to report hazardous laser beams aimed at aircraft, the U.S. military said it is testing a system to beam red and green lasers at aircraft in ...

The advent of hypersonic missiles has radically altered the modern battlefield. The fact that America’s rivals, notably China and Russia, have developed these systems well before the US military could ...

As a laser continues to fire in the exact same direction for an extended period, it heats up the air it passes through, which ultimately defocuses the laser beam. This isn’t a real issue when engaging ...

In another step toward practical battlefield energy weapons, the UK has for the first time tested a laser weapon mounted on a British Army Wolfhound armored vehicle as part of the Land Laser Directed ...

Iain Boyd was interviewed about laser weapons like Israel's Iron Beam system in a new article from the New York Post. Boyd, a professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering ...

Back in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan supported the development of the so-called “Star Wars” missile defense system. In essence, the Gipper wanted to be able to shoot Soviet missiles out of the sky in ...

The UK military has developed a laser weapon that could support the country’s Armed Forces with greater accuracy while reducing the reliance on high-cost ammunition has reached its next milestone.

The US military, one of the world’s largest developers of laser-based weapons is looking to develop technology that protects its own systems from the same weapons. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) ...

The US Army has conducted live-fire tests of laser weapons. Troops at Fort Sill in Oklahoma used armored transport-mounted directed energy (DE) to blast drones from the sky. The "first of its kind" ...