Lasers and microwave weapons are in demand for defense across the globe, as they kill drones by using either burning hot beams or electromagnetic force fields.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A defense company making high-powered microwave systems that melt drones announced a new iteration of its product last week.

China has unveiled new details about a high-power microwave weapon designed to counter drones, with its developer claiming the system has a longer effective range than comparable US military ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The THOR team flew numerous drones at the THOR system to simulate a real-world swarm attack,” notes Adrian Lucero, THOR program ...

A conceptual image showing Ratheon's DEFEND system beaming high-power microwave energy at an airborne drone. Raytheon’s high power microwave system may one day knock down drones, missiles, and more ...

WHITE SANDS, N.M., Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Air Force Research Laboratory and Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, have successfully completed a three-week field test of the CHIMERA ...

China is putting directed energy at the center of its air defense strategy, unveiling a truck-mounted microwave system that it says can disable or destroy hostile drones from roughly 2 miles away.

A year after the Soviet Union tested the world’s largest thermonuclear weapon known as the Tsar Bomba. The United States conducted its own thermonuclear test in the South Pacific codenamed “Starfish ...

TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, will design, build and test two high-power microwave antenna systems that will use directed energy to defeat ...

(Tribune News Service) — Air Force Research Laboratory engineers at Kirtland Air Force Base hope to accelerate development of microwave weapons systems at a new high-tech modeling and testing facility ...

Fujitsu has developed a next-generation long-haul microwave radio system, the FRX-3E. This device provides long reach and high throughput capabilities.Fujitsu has developed a next-generation long-haul ...