Amid waves of Iranian drone attacks, the U.S. Defense Department is pushing to finally field high-energy laser weapons in the next 36 months.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A US Marine Corps High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles with a mounted beam director and radar participates in a high energy ...

The United States Army has taken a visible step in the race to counter cheap, ubiquitous drones, firing its newest drone-killer gun in a live exercise that paired traditional air-defense weapons with ...

The U.S. Army demonstrated a drone kill in 2025 using a laser weapon integrated into a Stryker vehicle at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Credit: Jim Kendall/ U.S. Army The time has come for high-energy lasers.

Aviation officials shut down the airspace over El Paso after Customs and Border Protection officials fired a laser on loan from the Pentagon.

Soldiers look at the border wall next to a surveillance vehicle in Sunland Park, New Mexico, Feb. 3, 2025. (Andres Leighton/AP) The U.S. military on Thursday used a laser to shoot down a “seemingly ...

The Pentagon, CBP and the FAA said in a statement that the military mitigated "a seemingly threatening unmanned aerial system ...

(CNN) — 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 ...