In this edition: the US Defense Intelligence Agency’s odd assessment of China’s space laser ambitions, the US Army searches ...

The US military’s full embrace of high-energy laser weapons may depends on how easy they are for the average service member ...

Welcome to Pulse, a regular digest of updates from around the directed energy ecosystem. In this week’s edition: the US military’s dreaded Active Denial System finally gets a mission, the Defense ...

Since late August, the US military’s Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) 401 has been touting a December “directed energy shoot-off” as a key milestone in its effort to field such capabilities to ...

Welcome to Pulse, a regular digest of updates from around the directed energy ecosystem. In this week’s edition: a note on a recent New York Post article on US military laser weapons, NATO’s biggest ...

The US Defense Department may be reviving one of its most ambitious ideas ever, Laser Wars has learned: orbital laser weapons for missile defense. The Missile Defense Agency’s fiscal year 2026 budget ...

The US Army’s first production-ready high-energy laser weapons could end up in soldiers’ hands in the next 18 months, according to service officials.

The US Air Force is halting its push to develop an airborne high-energy laser weapon to defend aircraft against incoming drones and missiles, according to newly released budget documents. For the ...

The cruise missile-killing high-energy laser weapon the US Defense Department envisions as part of its ‘Golden Dome for America’ domestic missile defense shield is beginning to take shape. Laser Wars ...

More than 40 years ago after President Ronald Reagan promised Americans a space-based laser shield straight out of “Star Wars” to end the era of nuclear brinkmanship, the United States is finally ...