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The Amphibious transport dock USS Portland with a mounted Laser Weapons System Demonstrator Mk 2 Mod 0, center, in 2021. (Lance Cpl. Patrick Katz/U.S. Marine Corps) Editor’s note: This story ...

Editor's note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. Subscribe here. The U.S. Navy spent at least six months ...

Lockheed Martin confirmed that its JAGM Quad Launcher used MMW Doppler radar to vertically intercept a Group 3 drone at 90 ...

The U.S. Navy is accelerating its push into directed energy weapons as drone threats ...

The US Navy borrowed a US Army Palletized-High Energy Laser (P-HEL) to test shooting down unmanned aerial systems (UAS) at ...

One of the most distinctive features of the U.S. military’s high-energy laser weapon of choice isn’t the system itself—it’s how operators control it. The logic of embracing the handset simple: If the ...

Laser weapons are such an entrenched sci-fi trope that it's easy to forget just how real this tech can be (and is). While we're not exactly close to seeing real-life "Star Wars" space battles, the U.S ...

China has recently unveiled a low cost mobile laser weapon that can destroy small ...