Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy ...

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.

The UK has unveiled an energy weapon under development that it says could take out a swarm of drones for well under a dollar a shot.

AIDC displayed its new high-energy directed energy laser weapon at TADTE 2025. (Janes/Akhil Kadidal) Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) has unveiled a new ‘high-energy' ...