A viral post on X claims that a space laser weapon targeted the helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian. Here is why the claim is unfounded.

The General Atomics booth at Sea Air Space featured a display of an MQ-9 with an underwing laser pod firing at several ...

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BlueHalo displayed a mock-up of its Locust laser weapon system at the Navy League Sea-Air-Space exhibition in National Harbor ...

Back in 2020, Afzal did also note that finding adequate 'SWAP' space to support laser weapon systems can still be an issue even with larger platforms like ships. "There's less room on a ship than ...

The DRDO carried out the trial of Laser Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) at the National Open Air Range, Kurnool in Andhra ...

Northrop Grumman will advance to Phase 2 of DARPA’s Modular Efficient Laser Technology (MELT) program, fabricating a new kind of high-power tile to lower the production cost and scalability of laser ...

The compact High-Energy Laser pod for MQ-9B is designed with Fleet Defense and Counter-UAS roles in mind. General Atomics has ...

In a major milestone for India's defense capabilities, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully ...

The locally produced laser weapon demonstrated its capability to ... artillery nor to armour but to drones. Similarly, space capacities in the low earth orbit are transforming military ...

MCLEAN, Va., March 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Mission Technologies division was selected to develop an open architecture High-Energy Laser (HEL) weapon ...

The UK is moving forward with plans to deploy its new DragonFire laser weapon on warships. Lasers are being deployed to combat new threats from drones. The UK said the laser can hit a small coin ...