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 ...

Military officials could look to the potential of technology like high-powered lasers and microwave beams to stop missiles ...

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 ...

known as the Laser Directed Weapon (DEW) MK-II(A). According to local sources, the tests took place at the Kurnool National Firing Range in the Andhra Pradesh region and were overseen by personnel ...

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