In an appeal of a case the NRA filed in 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit struck down New Jersey’s ban on ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- A Washington County Circuit Court jury is being asked to decide whether a fatal shooting in 2024 was self-defense or murder. Hugh "Buster" Kane III, 71, of North Oakland Zion Road in ...

The ruling marked the first time a federal appeals court ruled that a state's assault weapons ban violated the U.S.

Two suspects arrested in connection with the deadly shooting at the Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn were charged this week, ...

Ukraine will try to develop a missile defense system with performance similar to the U.S. Patriot but with an eye on easier interceptor production. The program, called Freyja, will be developed in ...

As part of its high-energy laser pitch to international customers at IDEX 2023, Lockheed Martin displayed this quad-copter apparently taken out by a laser weapon. (Lee Ferran / Breaking Defense) PARIS ...

The British Royal Navy plans to deploy the DragonFire laser directed-energy weapon on its ships, as Rheinmetall and MBDA work on similar tech for Germany. (British Defence Ministry) PARIS — ...

The US Department of War announced on July 9, 2026, that two Joint Laser Weapon System (JLWS) agreements had been awarded to nLIGHT Defense and Lockheed Martin Aculight, aimed at turning high-energy ...

U.S. Army’s Indirect Fires Protection Capability-High Energy Laser (IFPC-HEL) Demonstrator laser weapon system. (Image: courtesy Lockheed Martin) The Pentagon announced on Thursday it awarded Lockheed ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently praised America’s defense industry for answering the call to strengthen the nation’s military readiness and expand production capacity. He was right to do so ...

BERLIN, July 9 (Reuters) - Rheinmetall (RHMG.DE), opens new tab and partner MBDA have signed ‌a contract worth a mid three-digit million-euro amount with Germany's ⁠military equipment agency to ...

The second Trump Administration’s Department of Defense (DOD) budget request for FY2027 included $1.1 trillion in discretionary funding and $350.0 billion in mandatory funding. (DOD is “using a ...