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Designed for use in low-or-zero-gravity environments where conventional firearms would not work properly, this magazine-fed, pyrotechnic flashbulb technology generated a laser beam—with one variant ...

Like every American kid who grew up with Star Wars, my ears pricked up at recent stories about Chinese laser rifles. Are we going to see wars fought with laser blasters in the near future? The answer ...

Rejoice if you look towards the dystopia of the Star Wars universe, for laser weapons have finally, at long last, arrived. The laser, a weapon system perpetually "ten or fifteen years away" from ...

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 ...

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, ...

After more than a half century of development, the U.S. military is finally close to fielding an array of laser weapons for defense against missiles, drones and small vehicles. However, the Soviet ...

Laser weapons have been a fixture of science fiction since the 1960s. Before lasers, there were rayguns and blasters dating back to the Martian death rays in H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds. Yet the ...