Perhaps the most precise method of guiding munitions to a target is with a laser device, ‘painting’ the target so that munitions can lock on and follow the beam. However, in order to do this, military ...

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 ...

Japan has quietly crossed a threshold that military planners have talked about for decades: it is now firing a shipboard ...

Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy has forward-deployed the laser-armed destroyer USS Preble in Japan since October 2024. The ...