The U.S. military is once again pursuing flying directed energy weapons to counter threats to American airspace.

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush shot down multiple drones with a high-energy laser weapon stationed on its flight deck during a first-of-its-kind live-fire te ...

Somewhere in the Atlantic, the flight deck of the USS George H.W. Bush became a proving ground for a weapon that fires at the ...

The U.S. Navy is accelerating its push into directed energy weapons as drone threats ...

The U.S. Navy has tested its new LOCUST laser defense system aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, designed to counter the growing ...

This story has been corrected. The U.S. Army has shelved its “Valkyrie” laser anti-missile system, shifting instead to the newer Joint Laser Weapon System, to be built with the Navy as part of the ...

The U.S. military's pursuit of high-energy laser weapons for American air defense comes amid the expanding threat of low-cost ...

Since he became Rafael Advanced Defense Systems CEO in February 2024 Yoav Tourgeman has been at war. Production lines have ...

The Pentagon is pursuing high-energy laser systems mounted on unmanned aircraft to counter missile threats more cost-effectively. The concept aims to complement existing interceptors by engaging ...

The U.S. military is laying the foundation for deploying high-energy laser weapons for domestic air defense.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Feb. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IPG Photonics (IPGP), the global leader in fiber laser technology, announced today that it has received an order from Lockheed Martin Corporation ...