The new $32 million laser attack weapon - designed to destroy drones, disable small boats and "dazzle" high-tech sensors - is about to be deployed for the first time in an operational area. The ...

Modern warships are increasingly exposed to short-range aerial threats that traditional defenses struggle to counter ...

BATH, Maine — Some of the Navy’s futuristic weapons sound like something out of “Star Wars,” with lasers designed to shoot down aerial drones and electric guns that fire projectiles at hypersonic ...

LOS ANGELES—The U.S. Navy has fired a laser ray gun mounted on a warship, zapping — and setting fire to — an empty motorboat as it bobbed in the Pacific Ocean. The test demonstration ...

Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, installing a massive high-energy laser on a dedicated test ship and beginning live trials at sea. The system, rated at 100-kilowatt power, is ...

We’ve been keeping a close, close eye on the U.S. Navy’s Laser Weapons System since it first appeared, and the more we heard about it, the more we were impressed. This summer, one lucky ship will be ...

The future has arrived at the U.S. Navy, which will begin deploying lasers this year and an electromagnetic rail gun within two years. The laser will be set up on the transport dock USS Ponce in the ...

Laser Weapon Demonstrator (LWD) trials onboard the German frigate Sachsen have successfully been completed, following on from the integration of the LWD in June 2022, MBDA, a multi-national European ...

The German navy has tested a Rheinmetall-MBDA laser weapon demonstrator aboard the frigate Sachsen. (Rheinmetall) BERLIN — The German military has received a demonstrator for a high-energy laser ...