Despite what many expect, laser beams don’t remain as straight lines forever. All light diverges over a distance. This makes it hard to create a laser which can do damage from more than around a ...

The Cheonggwang works by focusing a 20-kilowatt laser beam onto the target ... Unlike traditional weapons like 20mm or 30mm anti-aircraft guns, which are expensive and resource-intensive, the ...

By combining the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser and ultra-light metal foams, researchers at Lawrence Livermore ...

Israel’s experimental air-defense system known as the Iron Beam uses laser technology to strike down drones and rockets, but military analysts say the device needs U.S. support to improve its ...

The DragonFire is a cutting-edge laser-directed energy weapon (LDEW), which uses an intense light beam to cut through their ... And as long as the gun has power, it will never run out of ammunition.

A squad of fully armed soldiers follow closely behind a Humvee armoured vehicle, cautiously advancing through the ruins of an urban battlefield. About a kilometre ahead of them in the sky, a small ...

Here’s how it works. Laser beams powered by the sun are one small step closer to becoming a reality after researchers received funding to develop the pioneering technology. These lasers could ...

After that I grab the handheld gun and I get to work ... Either that, if it's not the pressure or the heat, the laser beam itself will vaporize the substance on top. So it's either or, right?