Japan has deployed a system that fires laser beams with 100 kilowatts of energy — powerful enough to disable small drones. It was installed on board a 6,200-ton (6.3 million kg) warship.

Japan has quietly crossed a threshold that military planners have talked about for decades: it is now firing a shipboard ...

France is moving ahead with plans to develop space-based laser weapons capable of disabling or damaging satellites from Earth—or directly from orbit. Tucked deep within the 2026 national budget ...

The LOCUST Laser Weapon System (LWS) integrated on an Oshkosh Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) was delivered to the U.S.

A new Australian-made satellite killing laser is threatening to change the nature of warfare ahead of China’s potential invasion of Taiwan.

France says it has ordered a counter-drone laser system as a demonstrator with an eye on potentially fielding a system around 2030. The system will feature a laser with tens of kilowatts of power, ...

Imagine a battlefield where missiles are intercepted mid-air with beams of light, drones are neutralized in seconds, and the cost of firing a weapon is measured in pennies rather than millions. This ...

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