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Trump-class warships to fast-track powerful laser weapons rollout across US Navy
The US Navy’s chief has fully supported directed energy weapons (DE), declaring that the ...
Their laser technology is a descendant of the United States’s Strategic Defense Initiative programme, colloquially known as ...
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This newly-tested military laser weapon called DragonFire absolutely obliterates drones
The U.K. Ministry of Defence recently tested the DragonFire laser weapon at a facility in Scotland, destroying high-speed drones with its targeted energy technology. Why it matters: Militaries have ...
Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy systems moved from test ranges into real air defense networks and forced ...
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 the ...
Imagine a battlefield where missiles are intercepted mid-air with beams of light, drones are neutralized in seconds, and the cost of firing a weapon is measured in pennies rather than millions. This ...
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