Laser guns have been the go-to staple for far-future science fiction for decades. Be they actual lasers or particle-beams that produce an energy pulse visual, they’ve rendered our movie and video game ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Navy's Next Laser Weapon Is Basically a Real-Life Ray Gun The U.S. Navy just signed a contract for a new portable laser weapon ...

BATH, Maine – Some of the Navy's futuristic weapons sound like something out of "Star Wars," with lasers designed to shoot down aerial drones and electric guns that fire projectiles at hypersonic ...

The ray gun is real ... or at least it will be soon. The U.S. Army is betting big on laser warfare -- designing, testing and perfecting ultra-precise weapons based on devastatingly powerful beams of ...

Key Point: Laser turrets will zap incoming missiles, aircraft, and drones. The U.S. Navy apparently has installed a new laser cannon on one of its destroyers. The installation could represent a big ...

In 2020, YouTuber Drake “styropyro” Anthony uploaded a video in which he built a laser gun some 20,000 times more powerful than the legal limit. Five years later, he’s back with a new laser creation ...

After more than 20 years of research and development, the Navy's dreams of laser weapons are about to come true. But like the dog who chases the car and doesn't know what to do when he catches it, the ...

A daredevil YouTuber and tinkerer has built a handheld laser gun that’s powerful enough to melt pennies from a distance. In a video published last week, American inventor Drake “styropyro” Anthony ...

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Nelson Ireson January 29, 2009 Comment Now! Testing last month at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico confirmed that a prototype weapons system consisting of a laser mounted on the back of an ...

A new DARPA contract plus the incredible power output of Lockheed's F-35 fighter jet could make airborne laser guns a reality. But this time, Lockheed's laser gun could be much closer to pocket-sized ...

Later this year, the U.S. Navy plans to conduct its most ambitious laser program project yet: test-firing a new naval Laser Weapon System, or LaWS, aboard a U.S. warship sailing off the coast of Iran.