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

What is more classified than a spaceplane belonging to the military? A spaceplane from the military testing quantum navigation and laser communications in orbit. The U.S. Space Force’s X‑37B Orbital ...

A quadcopter drone burns after being hit by a laser weapon system at Camp Roberts, California, Feb. 6, 2025. (Dan Linehan/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Army aims to produce up to 20 high-energy laser weapons to ...

JERUSALEM, Sept 17 (Reuters) - A low-cost, high-power laser-based system aimed at destroying incoming missiles has successfully completed testing and will be ready for operational use by the military ...

All branches of the U.S. military are aiming to modernize their command and control systems, and REDCOM’s solutions are designed to address the systems’ complex operational communication challenges, ...

In the most recent tests, the system successfully transmitted lasers to aircraft flying up to 5,000 feet (1,524 meters), the company said. The components form a “wireless power line” that optically ...

Laser communication promises data rates in the gigabit to terabit range—significantly higher than conventional wireless connections. Europe wants to expand its expertise in this field and install its ...

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 ...