It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie, but it's real. And someone stole it. Denton police are trying to locate a stolen laser cannon. The device was taken from a truck on Friday afternoon.

In other words, don't expect a working laser cannon until at least 2017. ... But the vats of toxic chemicals used to power the lasers made them all but useless in a real-life war.

The Army is moving ahead with plans to mount a laser cannon on a massive, 35-ton-plus truck. The service just handed Boeing a $36 million contract to "continue developing a truck-mounted, high ...

If Raytheon's stated goal is to build a laser cannon so small you can fit it in the back of a Humvee, Boeing's HEL MD easily fit aboard a not-much-bigger Oshkosh tactical military vehicle.

LASER weapons sound like the stuff of science fiction films, but they may be more real than you think. ... with USS Ponce fitted with a laser cannon in 2014 Credit: US Navy.

Laser weapons have been a fixture of science fiction since the 1960s. Before lasers, there were rayguns and blasters dating back to the Martian death rays in H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds. Yet ...

The system would use a telescope already mounted on the station to find and target pieces of debris up to 62 miles (100km) away, using a laser to push it into Earth's atmosphere to burn up.

Many fans of sci-fi books, movies and video games have encountered the concept of a "Gatling laser gun" or something like it, with rotating barrels and exotic projectiles. Now a laser-loving ...

We don't have X-wing fighters just yet, but we may soon have their laser weapons. DARPA is working on a system that's downright Lucasian. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and ...

Military history. The Navy fielded its first demonstration weapon of the project in 2014 -- the unimaginatively named, but cleverly acronymed Laser Weapon System, or "LaWS."For just $0.59 per shot ...