The U.S. Army has just fielded its first laser weapon-equipped unit, possibly the first of its kind in the entire world. Based at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the unit took possession of four laser ...

Laser weapons are extremely complex machines ... Indeed, the GAO assessment noted that many of the internal mechanisms critical to directed-energy weapons are so sensitive that they typically ...

However, space-based military-grade laser weapon systems under development could shape the battlefield anew. They would harness the fastest possible communications—via the light-speed of ...

It looks like a prop from a science fiction film, maybe something Han Solo would use in a galaxy far, far away. But the HELMA ...

To advance nuclear weapons, the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is changing the focus of its world’s most powerful krypton-fluoride NIKE laser facility. The facility, used to support missions run ...

Britain this week showed off a new laser weapon that its military says could deliver lethal missile or aircraft defense at around $13 a shot, potentially saving tens of millions of dollars over ...