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 ...

An incredible image buried deep in an annual military report released last month shows the U.S. Navy test-firing a high-powered laser weapon at a drone target from one of its warships. The photo ...

For the first time, a laser weapon system (LaWS) was successfully operated aboard a US Navy ship. A demonstration of LaWS took place in November aboard the USS Ponce while it was deployed to the ...

A model of BlueHalo's palletised Locust laser weapon system at the Navy League Sea-Air-Space exhibition in April 2025. (BlueHalo) BlueHalo displayed a mock-up of its Locust laser weapon system at ...

Laser weapons have huge advantages for the US military since they are silent, invisible, and much cheaper than traditional missiles. More from Military & Defense In this video of an August test ...

The U.K. military has carried out a first successful test of a British-made "directed energy weapon" to down dozens of drones ...

The DragonFire laser achieved the U.K.’s first high-power firing of the weapon ... Navy around five years faster than previously planned, which will protect our Armed Forces, and let us learn ...

The US Navy is having its sailors train on an aircraft carrier weapon system that the service is planning to rip out of its Nimitz-class carriers due to its ineffectiveness. The most recent ...

but this is a massive boost for the defensive posture of our Royal Navy fleet," he added. Countries including the US, China, and Israel are also gearing up to field their own laser weapons ...