As drone swarms overwhelm conventional defenses, the U.S. Navy is deploying HELIOS, a 60-kW laser that can destroy targets at the speed of light for the cost of electricity.

A shipboard laser can hit its target without emptying a missile magazine, but that advantage comes with a less glamorous requirement: electrical power. The Navy’s HELIOS system has now moved beyond ...

The U.S. Navy has completed a first-of-its-kind sea-based hypersonic missile launch using a cold-gas ejection method, a step ...

As the number of missile-equipped vessels shrinks, the Navy risks sailing into a dangerous trough, just as operational ...

Warfare transitioned from open battlefields to urban environments. Compact carbines with shorter barrels replaced full-length rifles for maneuverability. Combat now occurs predominantly after dark.

Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks Britain's Royal Navy is urgently seeking a ship-based counter-drone system and recent world ...

In an interview with UK defence secretary John Healey, Sky's Alistair Bunkall asked him when the option to deploy a Royal Navy destroyer first hit his desk. He suggested he had had options for weeks ...

The U.S. Navy used one of Boeing’s F-15SA instrumented aircraft to conduct the final test flight of the AGM-84 Harpoon Block II Update at the Point Mugu Sea Range. The U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems ...