The future arrived on December 28, 2025 as the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) announced that Iron Beam became the first ...

Portable laser weapons are now in U.S. Army units, promising cheap, rapid defense against drones, rockets, and other small ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A green tarpaulin hides what China claims is the most powerful laser air defence system in the world as Beijing prepares for a ...

Earlier this summer, Israel made military history. Not with a missile, bomb or bullet — but with a beam of light. In a first for modern warfare, the Israel Defense Forces successfully intercepted ...

Japan has quietly crossed a threshold in naval warfare, moving a 100 kilowatt class laser from the lab into real ocean ...

The DragonFire system successfully shot down drones travelling at up to 650km/h at a range in Scotland, just as a £316m contract for its deployment on a Type 45 destroyer by 2027 was awarded. The ...

Laser beams, robodogs and drone-zapping microwaves, these are the types of weapons that could be deployed on battlefields in the not too distant future. Some are already here. The threat of a wider ...

Forget the light saber; the flashy sword is but a part of the fictional Star Wars universe. These five crazy, futuristic, and veritably frightening weapons may sound like they come from epic sci-fi ...

If Trump’s “Discombobulator” really worked as hinted at during the Maduro raid, it would be the first time in the Pentagon’s history that it successfully built a directed energy weapon.