Pentagon directed energy plan was delivered internally in the fall of 2017 and will be fully completed by early 2018. This will be an update to a roadmap made in 2015. They will be creating a detailed ...

When it comes to power tools, generally speaking more watts is better. But as laser maestro [Martin Raynsford] shows, watts aren’t everything. He shares a brief video showing his older 100 W laser ...

The project is designed to control a robotic vehicle by using a RF technology for remote operation. A low power laser light is interfaced for demonstrating the possibilities of destroying a distant ...

The UK's Ministry of Defence has ordered three laser and radio-frequency weapons demonstrators for the country's Armed Forces. Today's announcement promises £130 million (US$162 million) to test and ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission achieved the first crewed optical laser transmission from lunar distance, sending 484 gigabytes of images, video, and test data to Earth. The Orion-to-Ground (O2O) system ...

The idea of using a particle or object's motion to detect RF isn't new, the first radio receivers used acoherer to detect radio waves. Metal filings completed a circuit when RF was present. A small ...

When NASA’s Orion spacecraft swung behind the Moon during the Artemis II mission in spring 2026, it carried a piece of ...