(THE CONVERSATION) Patriot missile batteries have been the iconic air defense system in the United States’ arsenal for several decades, but evolving threats – from cheap rockets to even cheaper drones ...

The Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration plan to jointly test a high-energy laser weapon designed to shoot down small drones at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The test, announced ...

A CBS 60 Minutes broadcast has drawn fresh attention to a secret 2024 test in Norway in which a government scientist operated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dept. Of War Confirms Plans To Scale ‘Directed Energy Weapons’ Image by CS StockShutterstock The Department of War has confirmed ...

As conflict escalates following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, and Iran’s subsequent retaliatory strikes, reports have emerged that Israel may have used laser weapons to shoot down rockets fired ...

Iran tensions highlight why the Pentagon is investing billions in Directed-Energy weapons to counter missile shortages and future wars.

Producers Oriana Zill de Granados and Michael Rey discuss mysterious injuries suffered by government officials, known as Havana Syndrome. Their reporting revealed U.S. government testing of a directed ...

A few months from now, Peter Anthony Schlesinger hopes to zap a laser beam at a couple of chickens or other animals in a cage a few dozen yards away. If all goes as planned, the chickens will be ...

AIDC displayed its new high-energy directed energy laser weapon at TADTE 2025. (Janes/Akhil Kadidal) Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) has unveiled a new ‘high-energy' ...

As the United States moves toward possible military conflict with Iran, the White House and the Pentagon have been boasting about an exotic arsenal of directed-energy weapons that could signal a new ...