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 ...

The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant attention this week when the use of an anti-drone laser system led to the ...

NEW low-drag stealth tanks for F22 fuel can be modified into stealth weapon pods for the F-35. This is the logical next step to solve the small internal bays ...

Britain and Germany have also been trialing similar systems.

Their laser technology is a descendant of the United States’s Strategic Defense Initiative programme, colloquially known as ...