PREMIUM: 'Grey zone' operations could benefit from directed-energy weapons In addition to the benefits that lasers and other directed-energy weapons (DEW) can provide to armed forces in terms of new capabilities, they represent a ...

Academic researchers support DARPA chip-scale integrated photonics programme The Research Foundation for the State University of New York is joining the DARPA-run Lasers for Universal Microscale Optical Systems (LUMOS) programme under a $19.21 ...

PREMIUM: Concerns raised over UK F-35 operational balance Defence analysts have questioned whether the UK F-35 programme can be built up to readily support a broad range of air, land and sea-based missions. ...

PREMIUM: Germany spends big on digitalisation and guided munitions The German Armed Forces are poised for a funding injection, after parliament gave the green light to new investment with an emphasis on digitalisation and ...

PREMIUM: UK MoD personnel tested for COVID-19 passes 20,000 mark More than 20,000 service and civilian personnel working for the UK MoD have been tested for COVID-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic, with 463 ...