Repelling mass drone strikes is a hard and expensive task, but lasers might help.

November 15, 2025: Ukrainian drone proliferation began when many individual Ukrainians, or small teams of civilians, designed and built drones. The drones served as potential candidates for widespread ...

Ukraine has developed a prototype laser-based weapon to bring down Russian drone swarms. Dubbed ...

A Ukrainian arms maker says future warfare is one soldier controlling drone swarms with autonomy. It's tech Ukraine and some partners are working on because it gives a single soldier greater impact.

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818. “War is chaos. It always has been. But technology makes it ...

Much remains unknown about the European laser defense system—including its effective range, its vulnerability to weather conditions, and its effectiveness at engaging multiple targets. Two European ...

Modern warfare increasingly relies on low-cost drones for a variety of missions, with several countries developing low-cost defense systems to counter attacks involving swarms of drones. China is one ...

The 3rd Infantry Division has been designated as one of the Army’s Transforming in Contact, or TiC, 2.0 initiative units. That puts it at the leading edge of putting new technology, such as the drones ...

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Frontline areas in Ukraine resemble the Battle of the Somme, if it were a deadly laser-tag game from hell. All the accoutrements of twentieth-century war are there, just with a modern twist. The tanks ...