Military weapons don’t change unless the battlefield forces them to. For Navy SEALs, that pressure came as warfare moved indoors, after dark, and into environments where adaptability mattered more ...

Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. This can be brought about by sudden, rapid advances in contemporary technologies ...

The concept of using light as a weapon dates back over 2,000 years to ancient Greece, where commander Hippocrates used polished mirrors to set Roman ships ablaze. For a long time, laser weapons were ...

US President Donald Trump refers to a ‘sonic weapon’ he describes as a ‘discombobulator’, but what is he talking about?

That is, how many razor blades a laser beam could cut through at one time. Even as the laser found applications in science and technology, giving rise to miracle surgery and revolutionary ...

Many military weapons failed not due to poor design but because they required ideal conditions war rarely provides. Systems dependent on clear weather, secure logistics, uncontested access and ...

US President Donald Trump has bragged that the US military used a ‘secret sonic’ weapon during its abduction of Venezuelan ...

The White House has promoted an account by a Venezuelan guard of how Maduro's security team was disabled by a mystery weapon ...