The US military’s full embrace of high-energy laser weapons may depends on how easy they are for the average service member ...

The US Army’s first production-ready high-energy laser weapons could end up in soldiers’ hands in the next 18 months, according to service officials.

Welcome to Pulse, a regular digest of updates from around the directed energy ecosystem. In this week’s edition: the US military’s dreaded Active Denial System finally gets a mission, the Defense ...

Since late August, the US military’s Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) 401 has been touting a December “directed energy shoot-off” as a key milestone in its effort to field such capabilities to ...

America’s laser dome is gradually taking shape. The US military has selected four directed energy weapons to participate in a Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) 401 pilot program to “expand the ...

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The US Defense Department may be reviving one of its most ambitious ideas ever, Laser Wars has learned: orbital laser weapons for missile defense. The Missile Defense Agency’s fiscal year 2026 budget ...

It was only a matter of time. At this year’s Pakistan International Maritime Expo & Conference (PIMEC) in Karachi, an unidentified Chinese defense contractor showcased a concept for what can best be ...

The US Army appears closer than ever to launching its first official directed energy program of record — a major milestone in the service’s decades-long quest to field battlefield-ready laser weapons.

On April 30, the Financial Times reported Israel had sent a version of its 100 kilowatt Iron Beam high-energy laser weapon to the United Arab Emirates to help Abu Dhabi fend off hundreds of missiles ...