The UK Dragonfire consortium led by MBDA will produce a Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) Capability Demonstrator for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) under a £30 million contract announced on 5 ...

British Army soldiers successfully tracked, targeted and destroyed swarms of small drones in the latest test of a Directed Energy Weapon. The British Army has completed the UK’s largest counter drone ...

The UK’s LDEW capability is advanced and progressing well towards boosting our future Armed Forces capabilities. DragonFire could offer UK Defence significant operational advantage by delivering ...

The United Kingdom has conducted trial of a new high-power laser weapon "DragonFire" to destroy aerial targets. UK's Ministry of Defence took to X(formerly Twitter) on Tuesday and shared a video of ...

The DragonFire lines up with other European laser-directed energy weapons being developed in collaboration with MBDA. After completing successful trials to shoot down high-speed drones, the MBDA-led ...

UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said he was considering sending prototypes of the “DragonFire” laser weapon to Ukraine ahead of its anticipated 2027 addition to the UK’s arsenal. The DragonFire ...

Leonardo developed the LDEW beam director as part of the UK Dragonfire consortium. (Richard Scott/NAVYPIX) The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has completed the first trials of a high-powered, long-range ...

US-based laser manufacturer IPG Photonics showcased its Crossbow Mini 3 kW laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) for counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) operations at the Defence and Security ...

A UK Dragonfire laser directed energy weapon system is seen on day one of the DSEI arms fair at ExCel on Sept. 10, 2019, in London. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) ROME – A ship-borne laser weapon ...

Dragonfire, the UK’s Laser Directed Energy Programme (LDEW) led by MBDA, has successfully begun a series of trials to prove the accuracy and power of the novel laser weapon. The first of these trials ...