The FAA's El Paso airspace shutdown did not go into effect until more than a day after CBP fired a laser to shoot down an ...

The Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration will jointly test a high-energy laser system designed to shoot down unauthorized drones at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on March 7 and 8 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The schedule for long-planned flight testing of an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship with a laser directed energy weapon has slipped ...

Details of the event were kept secret for a long time.

The DragonFire system successfully shot down drones travelling at up to 650km/h at a range in Scotland, just as a £316m contract for its deployment on a Type 45 destroyer by 2027 was awarded. The ...

Modern drones can fly exceptionally fast and for increasingly great distances, but flight time is still limited by battery life. PowerLight Technologies, an engineering firm in Washington state, has a ...

According to Rheinmetall, the German Navy’s directed energy weapon can engage a wide range of targets, including guided missiles, rockets, and drone swarms. The German Navy is getting closer to having ...

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 ...