After the US, Russia and China, India has successfully demonstrated a directed energy weapon or DEW — a 30KW laser beam capable of neutralising drones and static targets. It can also blind ...

India has successfully tested a new 'Star Wars'-like laser weapon capable of shooting down drones several kilometres away.

The system made by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) tracked the drone, fired a laser beam and destroyed ... "that will give us Star Wars capability." ...

Separate beams of light would just pass through each other — not clump into one ultra-powerful laser of doom. In "Star Wars," lots of ... then, it's clear that Han was justified in shooting ...