Preble is the service’s first destroyer to be equipped with the 60-kilowatt directed energy laser system. While only a ...

DRDO successfully tests indigenous laser-based directed energy weapon, MK-II(A), shooting down drones and placing India among ...

The laser-directed energy weapon known as DragonFire will be installed ... “Previously, we inherited an unfunded plan for a single destroyer to get the DragonFire system, and we're now ...

The April funding increase will help pay for new technologies, like long range laser and microwave weapons – collectively known as directed energy weapons – which will be fitted to warships.

For the first time, India conducted a successful trial of a 30-kilowatt laser-based weapon system that can disable, degrade or destroy small remotely piloted aircraft, swarm drones, missiles and ...