Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy ...

Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, installing a massive high-energy laser on a dedicated test ship and ...

Earlier this summer, Israel made military history. Not with a missile, bomb or bullet — but with a beam of light. In a first for modern warfare, the Israel Defense Forces successfully intercepted ...

British soldiers have successfully trialed a new radio frequency directed energy weapon (RFDEW) designed to take out incoming attacks involving large numbers of drones, the U.K. government has said.

British Army soldiers successfully tracked, targeted and destroyed swarms of small drones in the latest test of a Directed Energy Weapon. The British Army has completed the UK’s largest counter drone ...

The Royal Thai Army has unveiled a high-energy laser weapon designed to counter the increasing threats posed by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Classified as a directed energy weapon (DEW), the ...

Imagine a battlefield where missiles are intercepted mid-air with beams of light, drones are neutralized in seconds, and the cost of firing a weapon is measured in pennies rather than millions. This ...

London — The U.K. military has conducted a successful field test of a new type of weapon designed specifically to take down multiple drones launched in a coordinated attack, the government said ...

“I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests. These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we call noncritical explosions,” Wright said on Fox News’s “The Sunday Briefing.” ...