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Rise of military lasers in 2025: How directed weapons reshaped defense plans
Militaries spent decades trying to turn light into a weapon. In 2025, introduction of several lasers show how fast technology ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN
German firms plan warship-based laser weapon that can kill a coin miles away
German defense firms Rheinmetall and MBDA Germany plan to establish a joint venture in early 2026 to develop and produce ...
Laser weapons go mobile as the US Army takes delivery of two 20-kW, anti-drone Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV)-mounted Laser-Oriented Counter-UAS System (LOCUST) Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) from ...
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Directed-energy lasers surged in 2025 and reshaped modern war plans
Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy ...
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Rheinmetall and MBDA plan German naval laser JV in 2026
Rheinmetall and MBDA plan to establish a joint venture (JV) in Germany focused on naval laser technology, with the new ...
Rheinmetall and MBDA in Germany are planning on establishing a joint venture for their naval laser activities in the first ...
On July 28, defense giant Lockheed Martin announced it was planning to scale its current laser technology up to a 500-kilowatt-class laser. This would be a substantial increase in output over the ...
Chinese personnel at the country's first overseas military base in Djibouti have been using lasers to interfere with US military aircraft at a nearby American base, activity that has resulted in ...
As a laser continues to fire in the exact same direction for an extended period, it heats up the air it passes through, which ultimately defocuses the laser beam. This isn’t a real issue when engaging ...
The advent of hypersonic missiles has radically altered the modern battlefield. The fact that America’s rivals, notably China and Russia, have developed these systems well before the US military could ...
Lasers have been used to target US aerial operations in the Pacific, with 20 incidents recorded since September of last year, according to a US military official. Lasers have been used to target US ...
A day after the Department of Transportation urged pilots to report hazardous laser beams aimed at aircraft, the U.S. military said it is testing a system to beam red and green lasers at aircraft in ...
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