The U.S. Army is expected to soon get a new type of high-energy weapon that could potentially fry enemy drones. HII, a Virginia-based defense firm, has been awarded a contract to develop an open ...

Preble is the service’s first destroyer to be equipped with the 60-kilowatt directed energy laser system. While only a few of the Navy’s vessels feature the new weapon, experts expect HELIOS ...

The laser-directed energy weapon known as DragonFire will be installed ... “Previously, we inherited an unfunded plan for a single destroyer to get the DragonFire system, and we're now ...

U.S. shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries announced this week that it will develop a new high-energy laser weapon for ...

The April funding increase will help pay for new technologies, like long range laser and microwave weapons – collectively known as directed energy weapons – which will be fitted to warships.

Cheap drones are exposing gaps in current air defense systems, and countries in the Middle East are looking to laser weapons ...

(Chris McGrath/Getty Images) THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Ukraine claims to be one of the first countries to have successfully developed a laser anti-aircraft weapon, according to a high-ranking ...

The latest renderings depicting the U.S. Navy’s next-generation destroyer are missing some weapon systems initially ... Navy surface ships in the future. Laser ballistic missile defense systems ...