The laser blasters in "Star Wars" are no longer a thing of science fiction. Chinese researchers have developed an actual laser gun that can ignite a target on fire from a half mile (800 meters) away, ...

Nelson Ireson January 29, 2009 Comment Now! Testing last month at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico confirmed that a prototype weapons system consisting of a laser mounted on the back of an ...

An Apache helicopter just successfully honed in on and hit an unmanned target with a laser gun, according to a press release from Raytheon, the weapon's manufacturer. It was the "first time that a ...

The U.S. Navy just signed a contract for a new portable laser weapon system. Known as C-UAS HELWS, the service will use the weapon to target drones. Thanks to new technology, lasers are getting ...

Here’s what we know about the Iron Beam. Iron Beam defense system The Iron Beam, Israel’s ground-based laser air defense system, was first unveiled in 2014. The New York Times described it in 2022 as ...

A Chinese laser fiber company claims to have created the weapon of the future: a laser gun that can burn someone’s hair or clothes, pass through glass and transparent objects from almost 1km away. It ...

Michael is a huge fan of JRPGs and fighting games that includes the Persona, Final Fantasy, and Guilty Gear franchises. He has worked as a journalist for a decade and has written for a number of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This plastic "laser gun" toy was made ...

Reporting from Twentynine Palms, Calif. — The U.S. Marines will soon blast the western Mojave Desert with green lasers and may someday deploy chemical weapons in an effort to beat back marauding ...

Nerf blasters are two things at once. First, and most obviously, they're fake firearms for flinging foam at your friends and foes. But secondly, they're also ingenious works of engineering, with ...

Children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s often entertained themselves by playing “cowboys and Indians” with cap guns and rubber arrows. In the 1970s and 1980s, air-powered rifles filled with ...