Defence will receive a further £2.2bn funding boost this year which will include equipping Royal Navy ships with state-of-the ...

Summary: The UK's Royal Navy is testing DragonFire, a laser-directed energy weapon (LDEW) capable of engaging targets at the ...

Claims by Ukraine military official of a newly deployed combat laser joins a larger trend in directed energy weapons on the ...

The DragonFire programme has seen leading UK defence companies working with the MOD to develop a laser weapon for the armed forces. This year’s winner in the Aerospace and Defence category is a ...

Last year, the United Kingdom successfully tested a high-powered laser weapon mounted on a Wolfhound armored vehicle and also showcased the DragonFire laser weapon against aerial targets.

Laser weapons can be rather bulky due to their ... whether the Ukrainian laser might be a derivative of the British DragonFire system. Significant amounts of the British “lethal aid” for ...

The British Ministry of Defense quoted 10 British pounds per shot for the Dragon Fire laser weapon, which was first tested in 2022. That is the equivalent of around 12 euros.

TALOS-TWO is aiming to develop Europe's first fully sovereign 100 kW-class laser-directed energy weapons by 2030. The €25m project got underway in December 2024, building on the work of the original ...