HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA)’s planned Aug. 17 flight test of the Airborne Laser system was postponed when one of its cooling systems failed in preparation for the test, ...

It was 5-0 at the US Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico as a Lockheed Martin prototype laser weapon system shot down five unmanned drones with a 100 percent success rate. The August test ...

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a laser to communicate with a spacecraft 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) away in deep space for the first time, marking a major step forward in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The schedule for long-planned flight testing of an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship with a laser directed energy weapon has slipped ...

A German company used a futuristic laser weapon to cut through a half-inch thick steel girder from 2/3 of a mile away. But don’t try running away just yet: Dusseldorf-based Rheinmetall Group also ...