We've seen real laser guns before, pulling off tricks like starting small fires, or popping black balloons. That's cool, sure, but it's got nothing—and I ...

Real-Life Laser Rifle: Army Goal. The Army is looking at its Plasma Acoustic Shield System as a checkpoint defender, for now. But the original idea — and the long-term goal of the project — is ...

Gun lobbyists spent decades collecting customer data and fed it to the now-disgraced consulting firm to help sway the 2016 election. By Matthew Gault Published February 5, 2025 Tech News ...

In other words, it's basically funding a real-life ray gun. The Navy will use the weapon, known as the Counter-Unmanned Air Systems High Energy Laser Weapon System (or C-UAS HELWS for short), to ...

It's the kind of proposal that makes sci-fi dorks (including this one) quiver with anticipation: a 1999 design, found by DefenseReview, for a real-life laser rifle.So when I read about the far-out ...

Well, he's gone and created a real-life laser sniper rifle, based on the game. Priebe tells us that the gun isn't a recreation of any specific Borderlands weapon, as he likes to create his own stuff.

Real-life laser beams set a boat ablaze in the Santa Barbara Channel earlier this month. The Office of Naval Research successfully tested a boat-mounted solid-state laser gun on 4/6 in the waters off ...

Yeah, yeah, teeny-tiny laser pulses are good for eye surgery and metal-cutting. But, in the future, they could be used to make real-life laser blasters and man-made lightning, too. And which would ...

U.S. Navy could release a real-life ray gun laser weapon this coming 2023. This new war equipment is expected to take down drones easier and quicker.

Real-life laser weapons continue to inch closer to reality. Two recent examples: Raytheon says its "prototype solid-state Laser Area Defense System (LADS) successfully detonated 60-millimeter ...

While the United States is experimenting with weaponized lasers, they don't look anything like the science fiction laser rifles we know and love. John F. Williams/AP The photo above is what a real ...