The U.S. Army is expected to soon get a new type of high-energy weapon that could potentially fry enemy drones. HII, a Virginia-based defense firm, has been awarded a contract to develop an open ...

A U.S. warship, which is currently deployed in the Western Pacific Ocean, was pictured firing its laser at a drone target last week. Newsweek has contacted the Pentagon and the U.S. Navy for ...

Preble is the service’s first destroyer to be equipped with the 60-kilowatt directed energy laser system. While only a few of the Navy’s vessels feature the new weapon, experts expect HELIOS ...

The laser-directed energy weapon known as DragonFire will be installed ... “Previously, we inherited an unfunded plan for a single destroyer to get the DragonFire system, and we're now ...

USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group conducted its final training exercise recently in the Atlantic Ocean, preparing for a ...

The latest renderings depicting the U.S. Navy’s next-generation destroyer are missing some weapon systems initially ... Navy surface ships in the future. Laser ballistic missile defense systems ...

U.S. shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries announced this week that it will develop a new high-energy laser weapon for ...

The April funding increase will help pay for new technologies, like long range laser and microwave weapons – collectively known as directed energy weapons – which will be fitted to warships.