Laser guns have been the go-to staple for far-future science fiction for decades. Be they actual lasers or particle-beams that produce an energy pulse visual, they’ve rendered our movie and video game ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Navy's Next Laser Weapon Is Basically a Real-Life Ray Gun The U.S. Navy just signed a contract for a new portable laser weapon ...

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The ray gun is real ... or at least it will be soon. The U.S. Army is betting big on laser warfare -- designing, testing and perfecting ultra-precise weapons based on devastatingly powerful beams of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2020, YouTuber Drake “styropyro” Anthony uploaded a video in which he built a laser gun some 20,000 times more powerful than the legal limit. Five ...

A new DARPA contract plus the incredible power output of Lockheed's F-35 fighter jet could make airborne laser guns a reality. But this time, Lockheed's laser gun could be much closer to pocket-sized ...

Key Point: Laser turrets will zap incoming missiles, aircraft, and drones. The U.S. Navy apparently has installed a new laser cannon on one of its destroyers. The installation could represent a big ...

Directed energy weapons should be based on combinations of high-power fiber lasers, and not chemical lasers. That's according to Mike Booen, the VP of advanced security and directed energy systems at ...

Happy Fourth of July! High-tech listening devices are making it harder and harder to get away with celebratory gunfire on Independence Day, but what if you have a laser gun? Or better yet, a laser ...

Later this year, the U.S. Navy plans to conduct its most ambitious laser program project yet: test-firing a new naval Laser Weapon System, or LaWS, aboard a U.S. warship sailing off the coast of Iran.

Incinerating a million dollars’ worth of equipment in 3 seconds flat is pretty easy if you’re the US navy and you need to destroy a hostile drone: short-range interceptor missiles that will do ...