The U.S. Navy just signed a contract for a new portable laser weapon system. Known as C-UAS HELWS, the service will use the weapon to target drones. Thanks to new technology, lasers are getting ...

The following is the Oct. 20, 2021, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Lasers, Railgun, and Gun-Launched Guided Projectile: Background and Issues for Congress. This report provides background ...

The United Kingdom has awarded a £316 million ($413 million) contract to MBDA UK to deliver DragonFire laser weapon systems ...

The U.S. Navy could soon have a real-life ray gun laser weapon. As of the moment, the United States only has one weapon similar to a ray gun. This is the current lower-energy laser system called Zeus, ...

BATH, Maine — Some of the Navy's futuristic weapons sound like something out of "Star Wars," with lasers designed to shoot down aerial drones and electric guns that fire projectiles at hypersonic ...

BATH, Maine — Some of the Navy’s futuristic weapons sound like something out of “Star Wars,” with lasers designed to shoot down aerial drones and electric guns that fire projectiles at hypersonic ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Flight III DDG 51s and the Zumwalt-class destroyers are engineered with massive increases in electrical power sufficient to sustain on-board electrical systems such ...

The future has arrived at the U.S. Navy, which will begin deploying lasers this year and an electromagnetic rail gun within two years. The laser will be set up on the transport dock USS Ponce in the ...

The US Navy will soon commence testing of LaWS, a Laser Weapon System, aboard the USS Ponce. The weapon is pictured above. Testing is set to begin later this year. Here’s what we know about this big ...

The Navy has been working for over a decade on various efforts to equip warships with laser weapons that can confuse or destroy enemy systems. And while the service still doesn't have a ship laser ...

We’ve been keeping a close, close eye on the U.S. Navy’s Laser Weapons System since it first appeared, and the more we heard about it, the more we were impressed. This summer, one lucky ship will be ...

The fact that LaWS can kill a surveillance drone and a fast-attack boat has more to do with the vulnerabilities of those systems than it its own prowess. It cannot stop an anti-ship missile, and its ...