MOSCOW: Russia's new Peresvet laser weapon systems have been put on combat duty, the Defense Ministry's Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper reported Thursday. The Peresvet laser complex entered into combat service on Saturday, said the report. And the ministry also released a video on social media of the ...

KANDAHAR : Using laser weapons, Taliban killed five police personnel and injured a sixth in Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province last night, an official said on Tuesday. The security official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Pajhwok Afghan News the dead included three ...

WASHINGTON: A sci-fi staple for decades, laser weapons are finally becoming reality in the US military, albeit with capabilities a little less dramatic than at the movies. Lightsabers -- the favored weapon of the Jedi in "Star Wars" films -- will remain in the fictional realm for now, but after ...

MOSCOW: Russia has launched flight tests of its latest lightweight fighter, MiG-35.The military aircraft, which has been constructed to be potentially equipped with laser weapons, will in the near future replace previous generation jets in the Russian Air Force.The new war machine by the Mikoyan ...

WASHINGTON: General Atomics, whose MQ-1 Predator changed the world, is to start testing another potentially revolutionary weapon next month: a 150-kilowatt class laser. Several other companies are developing laser weapons and “we’re looking at all of them,” said Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold, ...