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Directed-energy lasers surged in 2025 and reshaped modern war plans
Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN
Rise of military lasers in 2025: How directed weapons reshaped defense plans
Militaries spent decades trying to turn light into a weapon. In 2025, introduction of several lasers show how fast technology ...
The US Army is now mounting defense contractor AeroVironment's second-generation Locust Laser Weapon System on some of its ...
A Jan. 8 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a fast-food restaurant that burned down in a wooded area. "This is a McDonalds (sic) in California that was just destroyed by a forest fire," ...
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Directed-energy weapons: How lasers could change warfare forever
Laser weapons are transitioning from science fiction to battlefield reality, offering precision strikes, silent kills, and ...
The U.S. Army has begun testing an upgraded version of a vehicle-mounted laser weapon designed to combat the growing danger ...
Laser weapons go mobile as the US Army takes delivery of two 20-kW, anti-drone Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV)-mounted Laser-Oriented Counter-UAS System (LOCUST) Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) from ...
Whenever you hear a military general, particularly one from the global north, say “modernization,” it is understood that they are referring to the development and integration of next-generation ...
The USS Preble successfully test fires the HELIOS directed-energy weapon at an unmanned aerial drone at an unreported time and location in 2024. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense Feb. 5 ...
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 ...
Statement: Drones reported across the nation, including around the U.S. Capitol, have directed-energy weapons that have a “space-based laser generating system that can create pestilence.” In a winding ...
The British Army has successfully tested a Radiofrequency Directed Energy Weapon (RF DEW) that took out multiple swarms of drones simultaneously and near instantaneously using high-frequency radio ...
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