Militaries spent decades trying to turn light into a weapon. In 2025, introduction of several lasers show how fast technology ...

Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy ...

The Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO) granted Apollo Micro Systems (AMS) clearance for two distinct Transfers of Technology (ToT) pertaining to Laser-Based Directed Energy Weapon (DEW ...

The U.S. Army has begun testing an upgraded version of a vehicle-mounted laser weapon designed to combat the growing danger ...

The Pentagon’s push to field laser weapons has shifted from laboratory curiosity to operational reality, with recent tests showing systems that can track, target, and disable threats in real time.

The military application segment represents the largest end-use category, contributing 61.2% of total market revenue in 2025.

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 ...

The UK's MOD said it test-fired a laser weapon that can track multiple targets and costs just $0.12 a shot, as nations look at ways to combat drones.