When people are thinking of the future of space travel ... by the concept but lacking a giant laser, [Tom Stanton] build a small craft powered by a vortex cannon. Creating a vortex is hard ...

Greg Leyh likes to screw around with voltage and electric fields and plasma. In his time he’s built some of the world’s biggest Tesla coils, huge towering transformers that throw off terrifying webs ...

As far as space travel and Kickstarter is concerned, we’ve seen crowdfunding projects for satellites in low earth orbit, impacting the moon, and even a project for a suborbital rocket.

Gen. Dan Karbler told the audience at the virtual Space Missile Defense symposium on Tuesday The so-called “laser battalion,” as Defense One described it, would eventually deploy the new 50 kw ...

The USS Preble is the first U.S. Navy vessel equipped with HELIOS, a 60-kilowatt-class directed energy laser weapon developed ...

Canon — the camera company — has a reputation for building powerful and durable cameras, so it decided to send some of them into space just to prove that the reputation isn’t undeserved.

A laser weapon firing a continuous beam. Doesn't require ammunition, but will need heat sink replaced if it overheats. What the LAS-98 Laser Cannon lacks in heavy-hitting firepower, it makes up ...

"The future is here," the U.S. Office of Naval Research's Peter Morrison said Monday, as the Navy unveiled a solid-state laser cannon that can disable or destroy surveillance drones and small ...