The RAF has deployed APKWS laser-guided rockets on Typhoon jets in the Middle East to counter drones at a significantly lower ...

Enemies hiding under a bridge, bunkered down on a specific floor in a large building, seeking cover on the backside of a mountain ridge or moving to attack in an armored vehicle convoy --- are all now ...

Somewhere in the Pacific, a guided-missile destroyer pointed something other than a missile at an incoming drone. The ship’s ...

A bright orange light shoots into the sky Monday night as part of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s new guided-laser system at the Maui Space Surveillance Complex atop Haleakala. ROBERT FUGATE ...

Precision-guided munitions changed warfare by transforming one of the oldest realities of combat: hitting the target. For ...

Over the Nevada desert, an MQ-9A Reaper drone locked onto an airborne target, fired a 2.75-inch laser-guided rocket, and ...

American soldiers have been using laser scopes for a long time, to make their shots more accurate. But what if the bullets themselves were steered by lasers, and able to turn on a dime? That's the ...

Benjamin Franklin is credited with inventing the lightning rod, and for some 270 years it has remained the main tool for protecting buildings from destructive and potentially deadly thunderbolts. But ...

November 27, 2021: The U.S. abandoned laser-guided artillery shells because of high cost and their need for someone to point a laser designator at the target. Laser guidance provides better accuracy ...

Key Point: It’s a serious upgrade to the decade-plus old Excalibur. Enemies hiding under a bridge, bunkered down on a specific floor in a large building, seeking cover on the back side of a mountain ...