The ray gun is real ... or at least it will be soon. The U.S. Army is betting big on laser warfare -- designing, testing and perfecting ultra-precise weapons based on devastatingly powerful beams ...

To date, real-life ray guns are still too big, bulky and complicated for the battlefield, even when they're powerful enough to blow things up. Take the lethal-yet-unwieldy Airborne Laser, ...

U.S. Navy could release a real-life ray gun laser weapon this coming 2023. This new war equipment is expected to take down drones easier and quicker.

It may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but the US military is well-along in the development of directed energy weapons--in other words, ray guns, energy shields and more. Larry talks to ...

The U.S. military is building an energy weapon that can blow up improvised bombs before militants do. But it may be some time before the device is used in Afghanistan. Not only is the weapon too ...

Torpedo-Dragging Seals and 6 Other Real Ideas for the U.S. Military. ... One of the ones that wasn’t accepted was a plan for a “death-ray gun” by an inventor out of St. Louis, ...

For nearly five decades, the venerable M16 rifle (and its M4 carbine variant, pictured above) has served as the U.S. Army's standard service rifle-- but perhaps not for much longer. Pretty soon ...

The laser as weapon As soon as the laser became real, military agencies and writers of fiction alike saw the comic-book ray gun made real and began to work on laser weapons.

In the movies, they go by many names: death ray, ray gun, laser beam, phaser, blaster and, of course, lightsaber. These weapons are science fiction icons. Remember Han Solo blasting Greedo the ...