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Trump-class warships will fast-track deadly laser weapons across the US Navy
The U.S. Navy’s push to mount high‑energy laser weapons on surface ships is no longer a distant concept but a contract‑backed effort moving through formal acquisition channels. Rather than being tied to any officially named new destroyer class,
Directed energy weapons may sound like science fiction, but systems like lasers and microwave beams are very much becoming a reality to counter threats like drones on the battlefield and beyond. Officially,
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Powerful US Navy laser weapon successfully neutralizes drone threats at sea
The US Navy has revealed new details about a laser weapon test conducted last
Top Navy officers this week argued the Trump-class battleship may become a “forcing function” to bolster the demand signal for laser weapon
The US Navy has confirmed that a frontline destroyer has successfully used a ship-mounted laser weapon to defeat multiple uncrewed aerial threats during a recent at-sea demonstration.
A practical laser weapon, which only costs about a dollar a round, has tremendous advantages, especially against drones and other small, fast, inexpensive targets that don't warrant a countermeasure costing hundreds of thousands of dollars a shot. One of these systems is the high-energy laser being developed by Germany's Rheinmetall and MBDA.
The biggest reason for the lag in development of an operational onboard laser system for US Navy (USN) ships likely has more to do with messaging than
The German navy has tested a Rheinmetall-MBDA laser weapon demonstrator aboard the frigate Sachsen. (Rheinmetall) BERLIN — The German military has received a demonstrator for a high-energy laser weapon developed by Rheinmetall and MBDA, marking a ...
EOS notes that it has already received a “world-first” export order for a 100 kW-class laser weapon system for the Netherlands. The firm also has what it calls a binding conditional agreement with a customer in Korea to deliver a similar system, and to set up a local partnership there.
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 DragonFire laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) has been in ...
Drone swarms can quickly overwhelm defenses and are difficult to combat effectively, but China's new microwave system could be about to change that.