The U.S. Army wants to speed up drone procurement while also developing laser weapons to shoot down enemy unmanned vehicles. A “Request for Information” from the Army seeks ideas for using High-Energy ...

Key Points and Summary - The Army’s Bradley Fighting Vehicle is living a paradox: it has never been more lethal or more constrained. -Years of add-on armor, APS, and Iraq-era survivability kits have ...

Combat exposes weapon flaws missed in testing like maintenance complexity and environmental stress that controlled trials cannot replicate. Many failed weapons were overdesigned or mismatched to ...

The Defense Department’s budget for fiscal 2026 is the largest in American military history, and recently released details show that over $384 billion will go toward weapons development and ...

A quadcopter drone burns after being hit by a laser weapon system at Camp Roberts, California, Feb. 6, 2025. (Dan Linehan/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Army aims to produce up to 20 high-energy laser weapons to ...