It won’t come as any surprise to learn that weapons technology constantly changes. Over the last two hundred years alone, the advancements in gun technology, from the revolver to the weapons of the ...

Iran’s Shaheds aren’t doing what they were supposed to do. Debris is falling as those drones are ripped apart. But it’s not just U.S. missiles and cannons that are ripping the Shaheds to shreds. A U.S ...

Navy effort aims to produce a containerized 150 kilowatt high-energy laser weapon to counter incoming cruise missiles.

Editor's note: This story originally appeared on Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. Subscribe here. The U.S. Navy spent at least six months ...

The DRDO is developing directed energy weapons that use high-energy laser beams to neutralise incoming threats in the sky.

Since the detonation of the first atomic bombs in 1945, the global security architecture has been fundamentally shaped by the logic of nuclear deterrence (Knopf 2022). The unprecedented destructive ...