Drones turned battlefields into networks of cheap flying sensors and precision weapons, forcing armies to rethink everything from armor to air defense. Now two emerging systems, high-energy lasers and ...

The shift could set troops up to better mix in new weapons like specialized Abrams tanks, drones, and artificial intelligence in command and control.

It won’t come as any surprise to learn that weapons technology constantly changes. Over the last two hundred years alone, the advancements in gun technology, from the revolver to the weapons of the ...