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 ...

This won’t be U.S. Marines armed with laser weapons and transported via space ship a la “Moonraker,” but a broad array of terrestrial and orbital weapons are being eyed. Nicholas Slayton is ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's Golden Dome missile defense concept revives a controversial, decades-old initiative whose ...

The laser rifle is a descendant of an earlier system, HELMA-P, which stood sentinel over the skies of Paris during the 2024 ...

(Photo provided/British Defence Ministry) (THE CONVERSATION) Nations around the world are rapidly developing high-energy laser weapons for military missions on land and sea, and in the air and space.

Saltzman said the Space Force categorizes adversarial space weapons in six categories—three ... and directed-energy, or laser, systems, according to a Pentagon report on China's military and ...

The laser weapon is being built under contract by the Space and Laser Programs Division of Cleveland-based TRW Inc. Costs are being shared by the Israeli and U.S. governments. Although this would ...

a high energy laser weapon developed by Israeli defense contractor Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. “I’ve previously voted to fund space lasers for Israel’s defense,” Green wrote in a ...

Elon Musk's social media platform X was largely restored for most users after an outage that impacted tens of thousands of ...