Laser weapons go mobile as the US Army takes delivery of two 20-kW, anti-drone Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV)-mounted Laser-Oriented Counter-UAS System (LOCUST) Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) from ...
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Rise of military lasers in 2025: How directed weapons reshaped defense plans
Militaries spent decades trying to turn light into a weapon. In 2025, introduction of several lasers show how fast technology ...
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World’s first ‘combat-ready’ 100kW Iron Beam laser that zaps drone for cents deployed
Israel has delivered its first operational high-power laser air-defense system to the military to counter drones at a ...
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Directed-energy lasers surged in 2025 and reshaped modern war plans
Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy ...
Ever since lasers were invented in 1960, defense contractors and servicemembers have dreamed of shooting things out of the ...
On July 28, defense giant Lockheed Martin announced it was planning to scale its current laser technology up to a 500-kilowatt-class laser. This would be a substantial increase in output over the ...
Researchers working with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have been awarded a $1 million grant to create a prototype quantum laser unlike anything we've ever seen. the laser ...
Armies around the world are testing high-energy laser weapons to intercept targets. If successful, the weapons could change warfare, as they travel near the speed of light. China said it found a way ...
According to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Pentagon spends around $1 billion per year developing directed energy weapons to counter threats such as drones and missiles. The agency ...
A day after the Department of Transportation urged pilots to report hazardous laser beams aimed at aircraft, the U.S. military said it is testing a system to beam red and green lasers at aircraft in ...
Chinese personnel at the country's first overseas military base in Djibouti have been using lasers to interfere with US military aircraft at a nearby American base, activity that has resulted in ...
Back in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan supported the development of the so-called “Star Wars” missile defense system. In essence, the Gipper wanted to be able to shoot Soviet missiles out of the sky in ...
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