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

The development of the HELIOS system began in 2018 with a $150 million contract with Lockheed Martin. The system underwent crucial tests in 2020, and its integration on the USS Preble began in 2021.

AFP The U.S. Navy successfully tested its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system aboard the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Preble last year ...

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 system on the USS Preble (DDG 88). The Navy's High Energy ...

The HELIOS system can be seen firing ... installed on the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS. HELIOS is an advanced directed energy weapon system developed by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Navy.

The video is based on an actual image of the USS Preble firing a Helios laser weapon ... and is meant to be a “multi-mission” weapons system.

has reported testing its High-Energy Laser with an Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system to take out an aerial target drone. The test was conducted onboard the Arleigh ...

report shows the USS Preble firing the high-energy armament. That amount of power can power up to 60 homes. Also, it can perform hard and soft kills of hostile targets. Hard kills mean HELIOS can ...

An internal military report released in January features the HELIOS system in action aboard a ... "CCM supported the Navy's demonstration on USS Preble (DDG 88) to verify and validate the ...

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 in ...