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A US Navy destroyer vaporizes a drone swarm at sea with a powerful laser beam

A guided-missile destroyer at sea doesn’t need a missile to show it is ready. In a Navy-run drill, a bright beam came off the ...
Fort Morgan Times

UPDATED: Laser strike threatens Flight For Life crew in Fort Morgan

Officials from CommonSpirit St. Elizabeth Hospital and Flight For Life are looking into an incident involving a blue laser and the Lifeguard 6 helicopter on July 10. According to the officials, a ...
New York Post

Lasers, including under Israel’s Iron Beam, are innovating modern warfare — for better or worse

Earlier this summer, Israel made military history. Not with a missile, bomb or bullet — but with a beam of light. In a first for modern warfare, the Israel Defense Forces successfully intercepted ...
New Atlas

The day of the tactical laser weapon arrives

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 ...
Yahoo

100,000-Watt Iron Beam laser becomes world’s first drone defense zapper to be operationally deployed — it can also shoot down rockets, mortars, and other aerial threats

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Wall Street Journal

This Laser Weapon Zaps Drones at $3 a Beam

News moves fast, and there's not always time to untangle the complex forces driving the day's biggest stories. WSJ Explains breaks down big market moves, business and economic trends, and scientific ...