It looks like laser weapons are going to get a major power-up. The US government has awarded contracts worth US$86 million to ...

Lockheed Martin is set to develop a tactical containerized 500 kW laser weapon system to provide combatant commanders with ...

The United States military is pushing its directed energy weapons toward a tenfold increase in power, moving from systems that operate in the 100 to 150 kilowatt range to prototypes designed to reach ...

Laser weapons are such an entrenched sci-fi trope that it's easy to forget just how real this tech can be (and is). While we're not exactly close to seeing real-life "Star Wars" space battles, the U.S ...