The Iron Dome has a success rate of about 90 percent against incoming rockets. Iron Beam will attempt to close the remaining ...

In the rolling plains of Oklahoma, the U.S. Army is taking aim at the future of air defense, and it’s powered by lasers.

The United Kingdom has also been developing its own laser-based defense system. Last year, the U.K. successfully tested its own high-powered laser weapon, DragonFire, against aerial targets. The ...

The laser defense system can take out aircraft over 1.2 miles away. UK Ministry of Defence “It didn’t have to be 100% perfect in order for Ukrainians perhaps to get their hands on it ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She ...

The United States successfully conducted a hypersonic missile defense test near Hawaii on Monday as Washington's adversaries are racing to field this type of superfast weapon.

A photo shared by the U.K. Ministry of Defense shows a "RapidDestroyer" Radiofrequency Directed Energy Weapon (RF DEW) system, which has proven capable of taking down swarms of drones, according ...