USS Preble is the service’s first destroyer to be equipped with the HELIOS 60-kilowatt directed energy laser system. A stunning image from earlier this month depicting the U.S. Navy’s High ...

After the US, Russia and China, India has successfully demonstrated a directed energy weapon or DEW — a 30KW laser beam capable of neutralising drones and static targets. It can also blind ...

Like a laser weapon you would expect to see in Star Wars, it was capable of locating and locking onto drones before destroying at a distance of 3.5 kilometres during a trial. The huge 30 kilowatt ...

Mr Kamat said this is just the "beginning of the journey", adding DRDO is working on a number of technologies "that will give us Star Wars ... powerful light (laser beam) to cut through the ...