The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant attention this week when the use of an anti-drone laser system led to the ...

The US Navy’s chief has fully supported directed energy weapons (DE), declaring that the ...

This article originally appeared in Popular Science. On Sept. 15, defense giant Lockheed Martin announced that it had delivered a 300-kw laser to the Department of Defense. Developed for a program ...

China takes big step towards developing ‘Starlink killer’ weapon with compact high-power microwave - Device small enough to ...

SINGAPORE—Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has opened a new high-energy laser facility in Singapore, marking the company’s first major manufacturing footprint outside Australia. EOS describes the site as ...

Their laser technology is a descendant of the United States’s Strategic Defense Initiative programme, colloquially known as ...

The U.S. Army wants to speed up drone procurement while also developing laser weapons to shoot down enemy unmanned vehicles. A “Request for Information” from the Army seeks ideas for using High-Energy ...

A quadcopter drone burns after being hit by a laser weapon system at Camp Roberts, California, Feb. 6, 2025. (Dan Linehan/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Army aims to produce up to 20 high-energy laser weapons to ...

China's deadly high-power microwave (HPM) weapon, the TPG1000Cs, can reportedly destroy LEO satellites like Elon Musk-owned Starlink.

China has developed a high-power microwave system that could one day be used to disrupt satellite networks such as SpaceX's ...