New AI interceptors: The Army’s 10th Mountain Division is training with the Bumblebee V1, which uses automated target recognition to identify and intercept hostile drones. Laser system cleared: The ...

Somewhere inside a shore-based lab in Southern California, a laser turret sat bolted to a test stand, cycling through scenarios designed to simulate what sailors will face when swarms of cheap drones ...

Ever since lasers were invented in 1960, defense contractors and servicemembers have dreamed of shooting things out of the sky with them. Lasers are used all the time in targeting, from the ...

This story has been corrected. The U.S. Army has shelved its “Valkyrie” laser anti-missile system, shifting instead to the newer Joint Laser Weapon System, to be built with the Navy as part of the ...