Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth abruptly removed Navy Secretary John Phelan, naming Undersecretary Hung Cao as acting chief.

New low-cost carrier-based laser system shows promise for defending warships against drone threats.

AeroVironment on Tuesday said it successfully demonstrated its LOCUST laser weapons system aboard the USS George H.W. Bush ...

China has recently unveiled a low cost mobile laser weapon that can destroy small ...

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

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

Despite years of promises, the latest budget shows directed energy systems are still largely confined to development and ...

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

Earlier this summer, Israel made military history. Not with a missile, bomb or bullet — but with a beam of light. In a first for modern warfare, the Israel Defense Forces successfully intercepted ...

This article originally appeared in Popular Science. On Sept. 15, defense giant Lockheed Martin announced that it had delivered a 300-kw laser to the Department of Defense. Developed for a program ...

One of the most distinctive features of the U.S. military’s high-energy laser weapon of choice isn’t the system itself—it’s how operators control it. The logic of embracing the handset simple: If the ...

AeroVironment, Inc. announced the successful demonstration of its palletized LOCUST Laser Weapon System (LWS) aboard aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) in October 2025 ...