Militaries spent decades trying to turn light into a weapon. In 2025, introduction of several lasers show how fast technology ...

Modern military weapons often arrive with staggering price tags and even bigger promises. Billions of dollars, years of development, and cutting-edge technology are supposed to guarantee battlefield ...

This past October, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia successfully tested an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) capable of decimating coastal cities. The weapon is the most recent ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday unveiled a sweeping overhaul to how the Pentagon buys weapons, a restructuring aimed at having the U.S. military more quickly acquire new technology.

Potentially getting as small as a mosquito, new micro drone technology could change the nature of some military operations. Micro drones are cheap and versatile, but tiny batteries limit their range.

Military weapons are often introduced with bold promises like greater efficiency, revolutionary design, and battlefield dominance on paper. But war has a way of stripping those promises down to their ...

Arms supplies to Ukraine have not dropped following a decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to stop direct donations to ...

As military spending skyrockets and the push is on for new weapons to go quickly from the lab to the fleet, military leaders, defense contractors, innovators and investors will gather Dec. 16 in ...

Today, the Chinese military has weapons systems so technologically advanced that, in some cases, there are no Western equivalents. From a country that used to be known for deriving designs from the ...

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