Navy effort aims to produce a containerized 150-kilowatt high-energy laser weapon to counter incoming cruise missiles.

Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) are advancing fast, raising risks of unsupervised targeting and errors. UN ...

Rheinmetall and MBDA have met a major milestone in moving their containerized laser weapon system to market. After a year of sea trials, the high-energy laser is moving to further land-based testing ...

Despite years of promises, the latest budget shows directed energy systems are still largely confined to development and experimentation. After months of bold promises about its directed energy weapon ...

As far as laser weapons are concerned, this is a major milestone. While other systems have been deployed with various militaries and have even been tested in combat, this is the first time that a ...

A California startup has secured a major U.S. Navy contract to advance a hypersonic ...

The U.S. Army has repeatedly declared it is closing in on deploying its first hypersonic weapon, the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon, or LRHW. But a pattern of missed deadlines, unresolved test failures, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist rendering of the Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser. (Lockheed Martin) Editor’s note: This story ...

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Raytheon's latest smart weapon, the StormBreaker, has completed another key milestone in its development program. Although not ready for action yet, this milestone has been achieved remarkably quickly ...