Another Dead End for Airborne Lasers: Air Force Scraps Effort to Mount Directed-Energy Weapon on Fighter Jet The Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator, or SHiELD, was envisioned as a laser weapon mounted on fighter jets such as...
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones A pair of laser weapons has been deployed by the Army to an undisclosed location overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out...
Top General in Mideast Calls for Microwave Weapons for 'Layered' Defense Against Drone Swarms The top general responsible for U.S. troops in the Middle East wants to see a surge of directed-energy weapons in the region...
High-Energy Laser Weapons: A Defense Expert Explains How They Work and What They Are Used For Visions of swarms of small, inexpensive drones filling the skies or skimming across the waves are motivating militaries to...
A Moment of Truth for the Army's Chief Laser Weapon Four prototypes reportedly arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of operations in early February, with the Army...
As Laser Pointer Incidents Spike, Airmen Are Getting Updated Eyewear That Provides Better Protection The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Human Systems Division is starting to field new, upgraded eyewear that can...
Incidents of Laser Points Aimed at Aircraft Have Spiked, and It Has the Air Force Concerned Personal laser pointers, small beam projectors used for everything from professors during college lecture presentations to...
Ride of the Valkyries: The Army Is Getting the US Military's Most Powerful Laser Weapons Yet The Army will receive a platoon of four Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser (IFPC-HEL) laser weapons...
The US Military Has Been Testing Pulsed Energy on Animals Trying to Recreate the Mysterious 'Havana Syndrome' Symptoms These experiments have been taking place at Michigan's Wayne State University.
Navy Still Pouring Millions into Shipboard Laser Weapon Development The Navy's fiscal 2023 budget request calls for over $103 million to support a half-dozen laser weapon concepts, according to...
Trump's Promises to Radically Change the Military In this episode, we spoke to two experts with collective decades of experience in analyzing the promises President-elect...
Trailblazing Coast Guard Commandant Fired by Trump Administration Adm. Linda Fagan, the first woman to serve in the Coast Guard's top job, was relieved following the swearing-in ceremony for...
Culture War Fights Poised to Take Lead in Trump's Pentagon Agenda Hegseth's testimony did not delve deeply into how the administration will confront some of the thorniest national security...
The Battle over Veterans’ Health Care: How the Republican Majority Hopes to Reshape the VA With the new Congress sworn in and President-elect Trump poised for his second inauguration, Republicans have queued up a...
Trump Vowed to End the War in Ukraine Quickly but Moscow and Kyiv Are Digging in Before Any Talks Both sides have taken tough negotiating postures that leave little room for compromise.
![Lockheed Martin's Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-10/pub-valkyrie-laser-engages-drone-1200.jpg?itok=BmuKifGp "An artist's rendering of Lockheed Martin's Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser, also called "Valkyrie," engaging a hostile drone. (Lockheed Martin)")
![President Donald Trump, right, appears on "Fox & Friends" with co-host Pete Hegseth](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-01/AP%20Trump%20Hegseth%201800x1200.jpg?itok=RYJjYQxd "FILE - President Donald Trump, right, appears on "Fox & Friends" with co-host Pete Hegseth in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)")
