The Army-Navy effort aims to produce a containerized 150-kilowatt high-energy laser weapon to counter incoming cruise ...

The military wants 'tens to hundreds' of laser weapons. After years of prototypes, the real challenge is scaling production.

High-energy laser weapons are a natural fit for large, power-rich aircraft carriers—with limits. When U.S. Navy leaders declared that “the dream of a laser on every ship can become a real one” earlier ...

The Pentagon is advancing its Joint Laser Weapon System (JLWS), a containerized high-energy laser designed to counter cruise missiles under the 'Golden Dome' missile defense initiative. The Navy and ...

This article originally appeared in Popular Science. On Sept. 15, defense giant Lockheed Martin announced that it had delivered a 300-kw laser to the Department of Defense. Developed for a program ...

AeroVironment tested its Locust laser on the USS George H.W. Bush in a one-day trial to speed up shipboard drone defense.

(CNN) — The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant attention this week when the use of an anti-drone laser system led to ...