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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese scientists have developed a portable 2-kilowatt (kW) fiber laser weapon that can operate in extreme temperatures.

A Russian FPV drone was destroyed after an encounter with a weird new Ukrainian weapon. Is this a high-powered laser or something else entirely?

Researchers in the US, funded by the US Air Force, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and the National Science Foundation, have managed to turn air into an "optical fiber." This breakthrough ...

Japan has quietly crossed a threshold that military planners have talked about for decades: it is now firing a shipboard laser powerful enough to burn through metal and destroy drones in flight. The ...

Japan has deployed a system that fires laser beams with 100 kilowatts of energy — powerful enough to disable small drones. It was installed on board a 6,200-ton (6.3 million kg) warship. The weapon ...