The USS Portland test-fires a laser weapon. The photo captured infrared light to make the beam visible. Staff Sgt. Donald Holbert/Marine Corps via AP Nations around the world are rapidly developing ...

Rheinmetall and MBDA plan to form a joint venture in 2026 to develop naval laser weapon systems, following successful German ...

China seems to have outpaced the United States and its allies in the development of directed energy weapons—as seen by its ...

Developed over more than a decade by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense’s Directorate of Defense Research and Development, Iron Beam represents a new layer in ...

LIS Technologies is cleared to proceed with procurement of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) feedstock and to advance research, ...

Born out of battlefield necessity and sharpened by constant pressure, Ukraine’s Trident laser system shows how a nation at ...

With the promise of unlimited energy, Xcimer has raised over US$100 million from investors and the US Department of Energy to develop a high-energy laser system that's intended for use in a practical ...

Pentagon directed energy plan was delivered internally in the fall of 2017 and will be fully completed by early 2018. This will be an update to a roadmap made in 2015. They will be creating a detailed ...

Scientists have just edged closer to a fusion energy system that doesn't lean on magnetic field-based tokamak reactors or twisty stellarators. Science reports that a team at Lawrence Livermore ...

Artemis will join Pink Floyd on the dark side of the moon – and the University of Virginia has contributed to getting it there. Artemis is a NASA program to return humans (including the first woman) ...

With $42 million, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Colorado State University and the University of Rochester will work on studies to tap into a bountiful energy source. The National Ignition ...