The US Navy wants to use compact lasers to shoot down cheap exploding drones. Rechargeable magazines could enable laser weapons to fire more shots before needing to cool. The concept has a lot of ...

The Army-Navy effort aims to produce a containerized 150-kilowatt high-energy laser weapon to counter incoming cruise missiles.

DONALD Trump has posted a mock-up of a US Navy laser blasting an Iranian drone out of the sky, as he bragged the regime’s ...

The U.S. Navy has revealed successful live-fire tests of a high-energy laser aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, downing multiple drones in a first-of-its-kind trial. The demonstration aligns with a ...

The U.S. Navy has spent more than a decade testing shipboard laser weapons that can track and destroy drones, small boats, and other threats at the speed of light. Programs like LaWS, ODIN, HELIOS, ...

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on shipboard solid-state lasers (SSLs) that the Navy is developing for surface-ship self-defense. The Navy’s proposed FY2024 budget ...

BATH, Maine — Some of the Navy’s futuristic weapons sound like something out of “Star Wars,” with lasers designed to shoot down aerial drones and electric guns that fire projectiles at hypersonic ...

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on shipboard solid state lasers (SSLs) that the Navy is developing for surface-ship self-defense. The Navy’s proposed FY2024 budget ...

The US Navy combat laser program is getting stalled with $55 million per year for prototypes but no combat deployment. The US Navy does not want to start spending billions to deploy small numbers of ...