After years of putting off the drone threat, the U.S. government is trying to do something about it, but policy is struggling ...

The US Navy’s chief has fully supported directed energy weapons (DE), declaring that the ...

The Pentagon’s push to field laser weapons has shifted from laboratory curiosity to operational reality, with recent tests showing systems that can track, target, and disable threats in real time.

Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy systems moved from test ranges into real air defense networks and forced ...

It’s no exaggeration to say that the U.S. Army is laser-focused on taking out cheap, deadly drones like the ones that have rained down on Ukrainian battlefields and Middle East bases. The service now ...

It’s a first for the US Army’s laser weapons. At Fort Sill, Okla., the Army conducted a live-fire exercise with the Directed Energy Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD). The weapon targeted ...

A few months from now, Peter Anthony Schlesinger hopes to zap a laser beam at a couple of chickens or other animals in a cage a few dozen yards away. If all goes as planned, the chickens will be ...

The Army continues to invest in “directed energy weapons” (lasers) to counter drones, due to their relatively low cost per shot. As unmanned aerial systems are becoming increasingly deadly on the ...

Drones have forever changed modern warfare. From rapid deployment and real-time intelligence gathering, to remote operation and lower maintenance, they've emerged as a cost-effective and multifaceted ...

In light of the successful US military raid on Caracas, Venezuela, that led to the successful capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, President Donald Trump claimed that some form of ...