“This is my goal: If it’s in line of sight of a ship, the first solution that we’re using is directed energy.” This is a quote by Adm. Daryl Caudle, and it sums up the reason the U.S. Navy destroyer ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Raytheon to design and build a sensing and targeting system to defend naval logistics ships and commercial vessels from unmanned surface ...

Israeli defence technology firm Rafael says its Iron Beam directed energy weapon has achieved operational status following ...

The US Navy has revealed new details about a laser weapon test conducted last ...

The Navy sees HELIOS and other directed energy weapons as critical capabilities, but has faced persistent challenges in ...

Traditionally, spacecraft communications to and from Earth use radio signals, which travel at the speed of light. That means ...

Coherent laser ranging systems confront a fundamental trade-off: higher resolution typically comes with increased system complexity and cost. Researchers from Tsinghua University have demonstrated a ...

Turkish defense giant Aselsan exhibited its AHTAPOT 100 naval electro-optical surveillance and targeting system at the DIMDEX ...

Drone swarms can quickly overwhelm defenses and are difficult to combat effectively, but China's new microwave system could ...

Laser targeting systems developed and tested in Ukraine are already being used by Defense Forces soldiers on the battlefield. This was announced by Andriy Hrytseniuk, CEO of the Brave1 cluster, on the ...

The first operational high-power laser interception system, dubbed “Iron Beam,” has been delivered to the Israel Defense Forces from Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, the Israeli Defense Ministry ...