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Robert Wall
Tony Osborne
August 21, 2025
EOS is planning further high-power laser demonstrations in the coming months to woo customers. Credit: EOS
Laser weapons since at least the 1990s have come with the promise of arriving on the battlefield within five years. Decades later, those five years are finally up. The U.S. and Israel have used these directed-energy weapons in combat, and a Chinese system sold to Saudi Arabia may have achieved its…
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