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

In this undated photo from fiscal 2024, the Preble fires its HELIOS system during weapons testing. (DOT&E) The U.S. Navy successfully tested its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler ...

Ever since lasers were invented in 1960, defense ... weapon. That's finally changing, though. The Army's high energy laser program is moving forward, and the U.S. Navy has been testing its HELIOS ...

The photo of the laser weapon in ... advises the Department of Defense on weapons systems. The undated image shows the U.S. Navy testing a weapon system known as HELIOS from the USS Preble ...

No other photos of HELIOS are available in the DOT&E annual report, and there is no evidence of videos showing the system released by the DOT&E or the Department of Defense. A spokesperson for DOT ...

including HELIOS. The tests are aimed at the "development and evaluation of directed energy weapons," according to the report. Lockheed Martin delivered the 60-kilowatt laser to the Navy in August ...

The US Navy demonstrated its new HELIOS laser weapon ... been developing energy weapons. Last year, the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense tested its DragonFire laser weapon.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Preble deployed its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system to neutralise an aerial drone during a weapons exercise ...

Citing the Japanese Defense Ministry ... yet made any official announcement of ship-borne laser weapons. In late 2024, the US Navy tested the HELIOS laser weapon system with the USS Preble ...

An incredible image buried deep in an annual military report released last month shows the U.S. Navy test-firing a high-powered laser ... of Defense on weapons systems. The undated image shows the U.S ...