Directed energy weapons include high-energy lasers that ... More recently, the Israel Defense Forces unveiled plans to field a laser missile interceptor system called the Iron Beam by this year ...

The U.S. is losing the hypersonic arms race to China—but a formidable, new weapon could change the game. When the U.S. Navy’s ...

A Stryker carried a 50-kW laser for shooting down a range of small, fast-moving threats as part of the Army’s Directed-Energy Maneuver–Short-Range Air Defense program. Credit: Jim Kendall/U.S ...

The British Army has conducted a successful trial of a new UK-made radio wave weapon that can take out swarms of enemy drones. Developed by an industry consortium led by Thales, the Radiofrequency ...

The British army is testing an energy weapon based on radio waves to destroy swarms of drones. The system impresses with its low deployment costs. The British armed forces have successfully shot ...

In 2015, U.S. aerospace and defense behemoth Boeing developed a laser weapon capable of taking down an unmanned aircraft by burning components of it from a distance in under 15 seconds.

The laser is a kinetic weapon, and can reportedly shoot down drones and missiles at close ranges. At longer ranges, it can blind sensors on other aerial threats. Reporting on this new system ...

India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Sunday, April 13, 2025, announced the successful trial of the in-house developed Mk-II(A) Laser-Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) system. It ...

India has successfully carried out the first test of a cutting-edge high-powered laser weapon—a 30KW system made up of six 5KW beams, with a 4 km range, designed to destroy drones, UAVs, and fixed ...

In a major milestone for India’s defense capabilities, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully tested its first high-energy laser weapon system, the Mk-II(A) ...

Directed-energy weapons (DEWs) are rapidly changing military defense by targeting threats like drones and missiles with precision and lower costs. Advances in laser technology—such as fiber, ...