As drones get more prolific on the battlefield, technology is being developed to counter it. Now, China is touting a new laser weapon system for this purpose.

China has always maintained an explicit no-first-use policy, meaning that it would only use nuclear weapons in retaliation for another nuclear attack. Partially for financial reasons, it also adopted a minimalistic approach for its force structure, seeking only enough weapons to deter an opponent.

The US military is close to fielding two new weapons designed to temporally jam Chinese and Russian intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellites, giving the Pentagon three counter-space capabilities,

Both sides of the Taiwan Strait are girding for would be the most difficult seaborne invasion since World War II.

This article was originally published in Breaking Defense.