The Navy’s Directed Energy Systems Integration Laboratory (DESIL)—the dedicated facility for evaluating laser weapons in a maritime environment located at Naval Base Ventura C ...

General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) integrated Epirus' Leonidas high-power microwave (HPM) onto a Ford F-600 commercial ...

SEATTLE — Seattle police took a disturbed man who was armed with a taser into custody Wednesday night, and investigators say he had been trying to get into the department's West Precinct. Shortly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of JIATF-401 and the FAA with the AMP-HEL system, March 7, 2026. (U.S. Air Force) Editor’s note: This story originally ...

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. Subscribe here. For decades, the U.S. military’s dream ...

Governments kept advanced military weapons secret for decades to maintain strategic advantages over rivals, with technologies like stealth aircraft, hypersonic systems, and nuclear weapons eventually ...

The surge of drone use in conflicts worldwide, seen most vividly in the Ukraine and Middle East wars, will accelerate the race to develop high-power laser systems that could down the devices far more ...

Since the detonation of the first atomic bombs in 1945, the global security architecture has been fundamentally shaped by the logic of nuclear deterrence (Knopf 2022). The unprecedented destructive ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Iain Boyd, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) Patriot missile batteries ...

High-energy laser weapons are often touted as offering decisive advantages over conventional kinetic systems, from speed-of-light engagement to a comparatively low cost per shot. But no claimed ...