As conflict escalates following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, and Iran’s subsequent retaliatory strikes, reports have emerged that Israel may have used laser weapons to shoot down rockets fired ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dept. Of War Confirms Plans To Scale ‘Directed Energy Weapons’ Image by CS StockShutterstock The Department of War has confirmed ...

“‘It’s the perfect kind of gray warfare.” This was how one researcher summed up the new generation of weapons that have the potential to disable people without using bullets or bombs. These are not ...

Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy systems moved from test ranges into real air defense networks and forced ...

The Army continues to invest in “directed energy weapons” (lasers) to counter drones, due to their relatively low cost per shot. As unmanned aerial systems are becoming increasingly deadly on the ...

The directed-energy variant of the M-SHORAD features a 50-kilowatt laser weapon system on a Stryker vehicle. (Jim Kendall/U.S. Army) HUNTSVILLE, Ala. − The U.S. Army is counting on funding in fiscal ...

As the United States moves toward possible military conflict with Iran, the White House and the Pentagon have been boasting about an exotic arsenal of directed-energy weapons that could signal a new ...

One of the strangest stories in contemporary statecraft refuses to go away. New reporting by the Washington Post revealed that a Norwegian government scientist has been secretly working on a ...

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 ...

Iran tensions highlight why the Pentagon is investing billions in Directed-Energy weapons to counter missile shortages and future wars.