Alongside improving communications, DARPA is also designing high-energy laser systems for defense applications. Two key projects aim to integrate directed-energy weapons into U.S. military ...

A race is on in the Middle East to develop sophisticated laser weapons. Gulf states are seeking to emulate Israel's Iron Beam air defenses. Cheap drones are exposing gaps in current air defense ...

The Tryzub’s emergence underscores a global trend toward directed energy weapons as a response to the proliferation of ...

Laser weapons have huge advantages for the US military since they are silent, invisible, and much cheaper than traditional missiles. More from Military & Defense In this video of an August test ...

(Chris McGrath/Getty Images) THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Ukraine claims to be one of the first countries to have successfully developed a laser anti ... key parameters at a defense industry ...

"The laser system is the weapon of the future, capable of neutralizing an entire layer of threats," Israel's defense minister, Israel Katz, said this month during a tour of facilities belonging to ...