Laser weapons are no longer science fiction. Modern systems can mount hundreds of kilowatts on ships and trucks. A ...

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

EOS notes that it has already received a “world-first” export order for a 100 kW-class laser weapon system for the ...

Earlier this summer, Israel made military history. Not with a missile, bomb or bullet — but with a beam of light. In a first for modern warfare, the Israel Defense Forces successfully intercepted ...

Imagine a battlefield where missiles are intercepted mid-air with beams of light, drones are neutralized in seconds, and the cost of firing a weapon is measured in pennies rather than millions. This ...

Modern warships are increasingly exposed to short-range aerial threats that traditional defenses struggle to counter ...

Australian defense company Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has unveiled its Apollo High Energy Laser Weapon (HELW) that pumps out up to 150 kW of power yet can take out 200 medium-sized drones running on ...

Military weapons don’t change unless the battlefield forces them to.

The age of laser weapons looks to have officially dawned. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems says that, for the first time in history, a high-energy laser system has been used to destroy multiple drone ...

Saudi Arabia's high-tech gamble on Chinese laser weapons is faltering. In a bid to shield vital oil facilities and billion-dollar Patriot batteries from drone swarms, Riyadh turned to China's ...