China is putting directed energy at the center of its air defense strategy, unveiling a truck-mounted microwave system that it says can disable or destroy hostile drones from roughly 2 miles away.

Drone swarms can quickly overwhelm defenses and are difficult to combat effectively, but China's new microwave system could ...

Even though it may look, sound, and act like a death ray, China claims that its new long-range pain beam isn't lethal. Considering the claim that it can cause "overwhelming pain," though, a victim ...

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters) - Laser beams and microwave dishes are the latest weapons in an arms race to shave milliseconds off dealing times in the shadowy world of high-speed, computerised financial ...