Their laser technology is a descendant of the United States’s Strategic Defense Initiative programme, colloquially known as ...

The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant attention this week when the use of an anti-drone laser system led to the ...

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), a technology company in Defense, National Security and Global Markets, was awarded a $6.5 million ...

The future arrived on December 28, 2025 as the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) announced that Iron Beam became the first high-energy tactical laser weapon to be fully integrated and cleared for operations ...

The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into military technology has sparked a heated debate among experts and ethicists. A recent Public Citizen report has raised alarms over the use of ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 18, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. Over the last decade, a new breed of tech billionaires has positioned themselves not ...

According to Rheinmetall, the German Navy’s directed energy weapon can engage a wide range of targets, including guided missiles, rockets, and drone swarms. The German Navy is getting closer to having ...

Human Rights Watch, a co-founding member of Stop Killer Robots, welcomes the discussion of human rights that has taken place in this session. This body of law is highly relevant to autonomous weapons ...

References by Pentagon officials, the think tank world, and various world leaders to autonomous weapon systems often cite a U.S. military policy requirement that doesn’t even exist. Published in 2012 ...