Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy ...
The Pentagon’s push to field laser weapons has shifted from laboratory curiosity to operational reality, with recent tests showing systems that can track, target, and disable threats in real time.
The age of laser weapons looks to have officially dawned. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems says that, for the first time in history, a high-energy laser system has been used to destroy multiple drone ...
Israel has delivered its first operational high-power laser air-defense system to the military to counter drones at a ...
Australian defense company Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has unveiled its Apollo High Energy Laser Weapon (HELW) that pumps out up to 150 kW of power yet can take out 200 medium-sized drones running on ...
The breakthrough of the last week is only the beginning of the changes that operational military lasers will accomplish for the IDF. After the announcement that the IDF’s new laser defense system has ...