The chief of U.S. naval operations, Adm. Daryl Caudle, is advocating for powerful lasers aboard the newfangled Trump-class battleship, which is also expected to wield nuclear and hypersonic weapons.

The dream of laser weapons has not materialized nearly as fast as the Pentagon once thought it would, but the Navy's top ...

A drone and missile-killer laser weapon developed by Beijing for deployment on ships is more powerful than its counterparts in the United States, according to claims by a Chinese military magazine.

Amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) conducts a high-energy laser weapon system demonstration on a static surface training target, Dec. 14, while sailing in the Gulf of Aden. See SWNS ...