The U.S. Army's 300 kilowatt Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser system won't transition to a program of ...
The Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration plan to jointly test a high-energy laser weapon designed to shoot down small drones at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The test, announced ...
As drone swarms overwhelm conventional defenses, the U.S. Navy is deploying HELIOS, a 60-kW laser that can destroy targets at the speed of light for the cost of electricity.
Anti-drone laser weapon tested in US skies amid airspace closures - The US military used a laser to shoot down a ‘seemingly threatening’ drone near the US-Mexico border ...
The Belgian Air Force has been testing the FZ275 laser-guided rocket and APKWS II on its F-16s to effectively counter the ...
Details of the event were kept secret for a long time.
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 ...
January 30, 2026: In 2024 China introduced Hurricane 3000, a truck-mounted high-power microwave weapon developed by Norinco to disable individual drone or drone swarms. The drones have their ...
The only real laser weapon that saw service during the 20th century was a low-power laser used by the Royal Navy during the 1982 Falklands War to temporarily dazzle and distract enemy pilots. Not that ...