Trump claimed the USS Defiant would surpass even World War II-era Iowa-class battleships in size and power, carrying ...

The U.S. Navy successfully conducted a demonstration with the Laser Weapon System (LaWS) aboard Afloat Forward Staging Base (Interim) USS Ponce (AFSB(I) 15), shooting down an unmanned aerial vehicle ...

The US Navy awarded BAE Systems a USD1.7 billion contract for the production of Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) ...

We’ve been keeping a close, close eye on the U.S. Navy’s Laser Weapons System since it first appeared, and the more we heard about it, the more we were impressed. This summer, one lucky ship will be ...

The fact that LaWS can kill a surveillance drone and a fast-attack boat has more to do with the vulnerabilities of those systems than it its own prowess. It cannot stop an anti-ship missile, and its ...

December 6, 2025: The Aegis Combat Control system has been around since the 1970s, the first ships had it installed for testing. By the 1990s Aegis was the standard radar, fire control system on new ...

Japan has deployed a system that fires laser beams with 100 kilowatts of energy — powerful enough to disable small drones. It was installed on board a 6,200-ton (6.3 million kg) warship.