The UK has fast-tracked deployment of its DragonFire laser weapon for the Royal Navy after trials in Scotland proved its ability to destroy fast-moving aerial threats. The Ministry of Defence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A red laser beam shoots through the night sky and detonates a drone. - Royal Navy The United Kingdom's Royal Navy announced a £316 ...

Britain's DragonFire laser weapon upped the ante on November 20 at the Ministry of Defence's Hebrides Range in Scotland when the high-powered, solid-state laser for the Royal Navy shot down drones ...

Deadly lasers: Laser and power-based weapons are a staple of most science-fiction literature. According to the latest data provided by the Royal Navy, they may soon become part of the equipment that ...

Already, both Europe and the United States have been plagued by mysterious drone swarms—many of which have ended up near or directly over sensitive military facilities. The Ukraine War has ...

The DragonFire MDC programme has grown out of the DragonFire LDEW capability demonstrator (pictured). This has de-risked and demonstrated key technologies, including coherent beam combining. (Richard ...

It's an incentive that's so great that the Royal Navy has pushed its schedule forward to field its Dragonfire laser to 2027 and others are likely also to see the fast track in the near future. In the ...

The first UK-developed “DragonFire” laser weapon systems will start to arrive on Royal Navy ships in 2027, under a £316 million contract between missile firm MBDA Systems and the UK government. News ...

The United Kingdom's Royal Navy announced a £316 million deal (roughly $414 million) to equip its Type 45 destroyers with state-of-the-art laser weapon DragonFire. This investment marks a major step ...