Repelling mass drone strikes is a hard and expensive task, but lasers might help.

When people hear the term "military-grade laser," it often sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie. The phrase gets thrown around a lot, especially in headlines and tech talk, but it's not always ...

Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy systems moved from test ranges into real air defense networks and forced ...