The U.S. military is once again pursuing flying directed energy weapons to counter threats to American airspace.

The U.S. military announced a series of major modernization initiatives across the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps in a ...

The US Army announced this week that it has successfully 3D-printed a drone-based warhead prototype, and successfully used ...

"While we need exquisite to take down exquisite things, we need to cheap to take out less exquisite things," Adm. Paparo said ...

The United States has not moved a key missile defense system out of South Korea, a US military official said Tuesday, ...

The US is burning through missiles built for a war with China, raising concerns about the feasibility of the Pentagon’s ...

The United States has built some of the most powerful weapons in history, but not all of them were practical to use. In the race for military dominance, especially during the Cold War, engineers and ...

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Palantir and its CEO Alex Karp called on the US to pursue AI-powered weapons, reinstate the military draft and shy away from ...

The Amphibious transport dock USS Portland with a mounted Laser Weapons System Demonstrator Mk 2 Mod 0, center, in 2021. (Lance Cpl. Patrick Katz/U.S. Marine Corps) Editor’s note: This story ...

The U.S. Navy spent at least six months resurrecting a high-energy laser weapon that previously graced the bow of a warship for a new military exercise last year, the service recently revealed. But ...