USS Preble is the service’s first destroyer to be equipped with the HELIOS 60-kilowatt directed energy laser system. A ...

In addition to being used as a destructive laser, the weapon can also act as an optical dazzler in a bid to disrupt intelligence and reconnaissance sensors. The United Kingdom successfully tested ...

“the U.S. Navy has not released any videos of High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system demonstration on USS Preble (DDG 88).” The weapon is still ...

It can be used as a potent laser weapon and an optical dazzler to impair intelligence and reconnaissance sensors. This formidable laser weapon harnesses a 60 kW high-energy laser capable of ...

Lasers are used all the time in targeting, from the attachments on firearms to laser-painting a target for bombing, but the laser isn't the weapon ... Integrated Optical-dazzler with Surveillance ...

The Preble's 60-kilowatt laser weapon can blind intelligence ... The navy currently has eight Optical Dazzling Interdictor laser dazzlers installed on Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

The US Navy demonstrated its new HELIOS laser weapon that intercepts enemy drones, missiles, and sensors. The Pentagon’s annual Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) report shows the ...

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Preble deployed its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS ... it became the first directed-energy weapon to be integrated ...