Interesting Engineering

Iron Dome integrated with 100kW Iron Dome laser weapon for improved air defense

The successful integration, as claimed, will greatly boost the country’s capabilities in defeating enemy missiles, rockets ...
Tech Xplore

Laser-based projection system uses light to guide workers through warehouses

Businesses are facing an increasing shortage of skilled workers. In some industries, like the logistics sector, specialists ...
Military Times

The US military wants a fleet of laser trucks. Here’s what they might look like.

With the demise of its Stryker-based Directed Energy-Maneuver Short Range Air Defense (DE-MSHORAD) program, the U.S. Army has focused its ground-based laser weapon efforts on ligh ...

B.E. Meyers & Co. Awarded U.S. Army Contract for Advanced Infrared Laser Aiming Systems

The U.S. Army veteran-operated maker of advanced photonic solutions will support U.S. Army's night fighting capability ...
Morning Overview on MSN

The Pentagon wants battle-ready laser weapons on show by 2028, and a destroyer already carries a ship-blinding ODIN laser

The U.S. Navy already has a laser weapon installed on a guided-missile destroyer, and the Pentagon is pushing to field combat-ready directed-energy systems by 2028. The Optical Dazzling Interdictor, ...
The Verge

You can print, slice, and engrave using this desktop crafting machine

xTool’s new M2 can handle a variety of projects and uses two cameras to auto-adjust settings for different materials. xTool’s new M2 can handle a variety of projects and uses two cameras to ...
Flying

FAA, Pentagon Clear Use of Anti-Drone Laser System

The FAA and the Defense Department have concluded that high-energy lasers used for targeting drones do not pose an "undue risk" to passenger aircraft. This determination was made after a thorough ...
Wall Street Journal

We’re Using So Much AI That Computing Firepower Is Running Out

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...
The Hill

FAA, Pentagon declare antidrone laser system safe after El Paso airport shutdown

The U.S. government can now use a counterdrone laser along the southern border after the Pentagon and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) agreed the weapons are safe, the two agencies announced ...
Stars and Stripes

Military, FAA reach agreement on how to use counter-drone laser along southwest border

Military and aviation safety officials have finished a safety assessment of the use of lasers to counter drones along the U.S. border with Mexico and found a way to move forward that will keep air ...
The New York Times

Pentagon Weighs Using Anti-Drone Lasers in Washington Airspace

Sightings of drones around Fort McNair, the Army base where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio live, have prompted consideration of deploying the new technology. By Kate ...
The Economist

Why armies are using laser weapons to zap things out of the sky

For a while missiles looked like potential prey. They have thin skins and are packed with fuel and explosives. Merely damaging the shell of a supersonic missile can create drag, causing it to tumble ...