Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, moving a 100 kilowatt class laser from the lab into real ocean ...

The U.K. Ministry of Defence recently tested the DragonFire laser weapon at a facility in Scotland, destroying high-speed drones with its targeted energy technology. Why it matters: Militaries have ...

The future arrived on December 28, 2025 as the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) announced that Iron Beam became the first ...

Modern warships are increasingly exposed to short-range aerial threats that traditional defenses struggle to counter ...

It sounds like a contradiction. A weapon powerful enough to slice through metal and take down drones while they are still ...

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The chemical oxygen iodine laser weapon market offers significant growth opportunities due to advancements in laser ...

December 6, 2025: The Aegis Combat Control system has been around since the 1970s, the first ships had it installed for testing. By the 1990s Aegis was the standard radar, fire control system on new ...

The German Bundeswehr, alongside MBDA Deutschland and Rheinmetall, has tested a Laser Weapon Demonstrator, with over 100 field firings against a range of targets completed in September 2023. (MBDA) ...