The concept of using light as a weapon dates back over 2,000 years to ancient Greece, where commander Hippocrates used polished mirrors to set Roman ships ablaze. For a long time, laser weapons were ...

During World War II, American scientists created a weapon that made anti-aircraft fire several times more deadly. The proximity fuse was used by the U.S. Navy while the U.S. Army was forbidden from ...

Seth Jones of the center for Strategic and International Studies talks about the U.S military's capacity to carry out extended strikes in Iran, and Iran's ability to retaliate.

The United States Department of Defense’s decision on February 27 to reject the artificial intelligence company Anthropic’s ...

The US military has assembled a massive collection of weapons systems in the Middle East in the midst of ongoing diplomatic negotiations between the US and Iran, flooding ships and aircraft to nearby ...

Advanced military systems often deliver superior combat capability but impose heavy sustainment burdens that limit readiness and deployability. Stealth aircraft like the B-2 and F-22 require ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Large defense companies have "conned" the U.S. military into buying expensive equipment when cheaper commercial options would have been available, U.S. Army Secretary Dan ...

The U.S. Army demonstrated a drone kill in 2025 using a laser weapon integrated into a Stryker vehicle at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Credit: Jim Kendall/ U.S. Army The time has come for high-energy lasers.

Many Cold War weapons remain in U.S. service because modernization proved faster and cheaper than replacement. Platforms like the B-52 and M2 Browning endure because no newer system matches their ...

Soldiers examine DEVCOM CBC's Autonomous Equipment Decontamination System at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, May 2024. (Gabriella White/U.S. Army) The U.S. Army is looking to have autonomous airborne ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Army is teaching soldiers to attack with drones, a style of warfare the US isn't used to. But it's also teaching them that ...