BlueHalo's Locust laser air defense system, which is designed to shoot down small drones, rockets and mortar shells. The United States military has invested tens of billions of dollars over a ...

AeroVironment’s LOCUST laser weapon recently finished a major counter-drone test with the Pentagon and the Federal Aviation ...

Arbor ARES-2100 fanless box PC is another industrial platform based on the new Intel Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" processor ...

The Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller has inspired a wave of creative projects, from environmental monitors to laser distance sensors. With its low cost, flexible programming options, and rich ...

The headlines lately have verged on science fiction. A few weeks ago, my colleague Simon Shuster reported that the Ukrainian military had unveiled a new anti-drone laser weapon called the Sunray. On ...

Moving photonic ICs into the same package as silicon helps improve performance, but lasers remain outside. A new monolithic laser array allows hundreds of colors, each individually software-tunable ...

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 ...

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It's double-barreled, it uses lasers instead of LEDs, and it's machined from a solid block of 6061 aluminum alloy. Come meet the Lumitwin DL700 flashlight, which belts out two converging beams up to a ...

US-based laser manufacturer IPG Photonics showcased its Crossbow Mini 3 kW laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) for counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) operations at the Defence and Security ...