According to the South China Morning Post, the Chinese military is already hard at work on a prototype airborne laser weapon, although it’s unclear whether the technology required to fully ...

Saltzman said the Space Force categorizes adversarial space weapons in six categories—three that are space-based and three ...

The laser energy fuses the hydrogen together ... Experts say the facility also gives China the ability to research nuclear weapons. China and the US are both parties to the Comprehensive Nuclear ...

The news comes after a U.S. destroyer, which has a high-energy laser weapon, deployed to Japan in October 2024.

While China has publicly displayed land-based laser weapons, such as the LW-30 laser defense system displayed at Airshow China 2022, the country has not yet made any official announcement of ship ...

Laser fusion research ... But for countries that have not done many test detonations, he said - China has tested 45 nuclear weapons, compared with 1,054 for the United States - such experiments ...

The microwave weapon developed by Chinese ... station needed to converge eight laser rays into a single beam for destroying planets, it said. "Engineers from China have somehow surmounted ...

It was a pivotal moment in China’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. The experiment was conducted at a time of immense political challenges: the nation’s alliance with the Soviet Union had fallen ...