If there's one thing that the world has learned from the Russo-Ukrainian War, it's that drone warfare is the way of the future. While drones have been around for decades, low-cost, one-way attack ...

India's DRDO seeks industry partners for its 30kW counter-drone laser weapon. Final trials concluded in August 2025, demonstrating the technology's readiness. This system targets drone swarms and ...

McAllen, Texas — Less than two weeks after the military first used a high-energy laser weapon system to down suspicious drones, military officials told CBS News there has been a roughly 75% decrease ...

The U.S. Army’s Enduring-High Energy Laser (E-HEL) system is designed to provide soldiers with a scalable, affordable directed-energy capability to defeat unmanned aircraft system threats. (Darrell ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - A Huntsville defense company demonstrated an anti-drone laser system this week, offering an up-close look at technology designed to defend against unmanned aerial threats ...

For decades, laser weapons have represented one of the Pentagon's most ambitious technological goals — promising to shoot down enemy drones and missiles at the speed of light without expending costly ...

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The 29th Secretary of War, the Honorable Pete Hegseth, delivers a speech during a Pentagon Hall of Heroes Induction ceremony in the Pentagon at Washington, D.C., June 19, 2026. Credit: (U.S. Marine ...

CAMAS, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--nLIGHT, Inc. (NASDAQ: LASR), a leading provider of high-energy lasers for mission‑critical directed energy applications, today announced it has been selected for a Joint ...

Fraunhofer ILT in Aachen has developed a highly complex laser-optical system for a quantum computer currently under construction at the 5th Institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart. This ...

The Apollo high-energy laser on display at Eurosatory. Credit: Aviation Week Staff PARIS—Australian counter-drone specialist Electro Optic Systems (EOS) is nearing a contract to launch the ...