USS Preble is the service’s first destroyer to be equipped with the HELIOS 60-kilowatt directed energy laser system. A stunning image from earlier this month depicting the U.S. Navy’s High-Energy ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

ABU DHABI—Rafael is introducing a new laser air defense system, offering a mobile version of its Iron Beam in its bet that directed energy weapons are the best way to counter the rapidly growing ...

Saltzman said the Space Force categorizes adversarial space weapons in six categories—three that are space-based and three ...

The new system uses AI-assisted targeting to quickly identify and eliminate threats. The new AI-assisted system uses a ...

MILAN — Interest in direct-energy weapons is rising in the Gulf region ... with lasers has long been the holy grail of air defense. Few nations have succeeded so far, with Israel and the ...

The US Army is building the world's most powerful laser, according to local reports on Wednesday. The Tactical High Power Operational Responder, THOR, was built at Kirtland Air Force Base in the ...