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First Laser Weapon For A Fighter Delivered To The Air Force
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jul 11, 2022
Tankers Charging Drones With Lasers The Focus Of New DARPA Program
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 19, 2022
Army Tests Uncrewed M113 Armed With Laser-Guided Rocket Launcher
By Dan Parsons / Updated May 20, 2022
Russia Fires World’s Biggest Laser-Guided Mortar Round In Ukraine
By Emma Helfrich / Updated May 13, 2022
Israel’s ‘Iron Beam’ Laser Successfully Downs Rockets, Drones, Mortars
By Howard Altman / Updated Apr 15, 2022
Podded Laser Weapon Took Center Stage In Latest Air Force Virtual Wargame
By Brett Tingley / Updated Feb 11, 2022
U.S. Intelligence Community Still Cannot Attribute Havana Syndrome To A ‘Foreign Actor’
By Brett Tingley / Updated Feb 2, 2022
FedEx Wants To Equip Airbus A321s With Anti-Missile Laser Countermeasures
By Brett Tingley / Updated Jan 14, 2022
The Navy Is Betting Big On High-Power Microwave Weapons
By Brett Tingley / Updated Jan 7, 2022
What It’s Like To Live And Work Inside White Sands Missile Range
By Randy Smith / Updated Dec 22, 2021
USS Portland Uses Its Experimental Laser To Fry A Floating Target In The Middle East
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 15, 2021
Competition To Build An Army Stryker That Zaps Drone Swarms Heats Up
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Oct 25, 2021
Small Unmanned Helicopters Used Lasers To Map Littorals In Recent U.S. Navy Tests
By Brett Tingley / Updated Aug 9, 2021
Lasers Destined For Fighter Jets Are Now Being Tested In The Air Force’s Wind Tunnels
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Aug 3, 2021
Air Force Directed Energy Report Argues Defensive Force Fields May Be “Just On The Horizon”
By Brett Tingley / Updated Jul 21, 2021
Here’s Our Best Look Yet At The Navy’s New Laser Dazzler System
By Brett Tingley / Updated Jul 13, 2021
DoE’s Extreme-Security Nevada Test Site Touts The “Ultimate Playground” For Drone Tests
By Brett Tingley / Updated Jun 29, 2021
Israel Has Shot Down Drones With An Airborne High-Power Laser
By Brett Tingley / Updated Jun 21, 2021
Drone Used High Power Microwaves To Knock Down Other Drones In DARPA Demo
By Brett Tingley / Updated Jun 10, 2021
Mysterious Black Towed Target Was Built To Support Airborne Laser Tests
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 28, 2021
Here’s What The Army’s Long-Awaited Super Air Defense Network Can Actually Do
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 28, 2021
Laser Defense Pod For The Air Force’s Fighter Jets Is Finally Taking Shape
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 23, 2021
How The Once Elusive Dream Of Laser Weapons Suddenly Became A Reality
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 10, 2020
Laser Weapons On The Battlefield Of Tomorrow: Separating Fact From Fiction
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 3, 2020
Scaled Composites’ Stealthy Test Jet Now Flying With Possible Laser Weapon Modifications
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Oct 27, 2020
Check Out This Sailor Holding A Laser Rifle Aboard The Nuclear Submarine USS Minnesota
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 26, 2020
Navy To Add Laser Weapons To At Least Seven More Ships In The Next Three Years
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 8, 2020
Is The United States Firing Off “Electricity Bombs” in Syria?
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 5, 2020
America’s Electronic Attackers May Have a Secret Mission
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 5, 2020
Air Force Hits Major Snags With Fighter And Missile Defense Airborne Laser Initiatives
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2020
The Amphibious Warship USS Portland Has Shot Down A Drone With Its New High-Power Laser
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 22, 2020
Pentagon’s Top R&D Chief Throws Cold Water On Laser Missile Defense Aspirations
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 20, 2020
X-37B Space Plane’s Microwave Power Beam Experiment Is A Way Bigger Deal Than It Seems
By Brett Tingley / Updated May 13, 2020
Navy Littoral Combat Ship Will Soon Be Armed With A Laser Weapon System
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 14, 2020
Chilean Protestors Down Drone By Dazzling It With Dozens Of Laser Pointers (Updated)
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 15, 2019
Mysterious Laser Turret Appears On US Navy Destroyer USS Dewey
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 9, 2019
Mysterious Object Northrop Is Barging From Redondo Beach Is A High-Power Naval Laser
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Oct 19, 2019
Air Force Set To Deploy Its Counter-Drone “Phaser” Microwave Weapon Overseas
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Sep 24, 2019
The French Have Plans For A Constellation Of Laser-Armed Miniature Satellites
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 26, 2019
Congress Demands Space-Based Missile Defense Weapons and Sensors No Matter What
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 1, 2019
Laser McLazerface? Kremlin Crowdsourcing Names For Putin’s New Super Weapons
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
Lebanese Troops Hammered ISIS With Laser Guided Artillery Shells in 2017
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
American Diplomats In Cuba Have Fallen Ill From Mysterious Sonic Attacks
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
The U.S. Army’s Laser-Armed Stryker Has Blasted Dozens of Drones
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019