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 contractors and servicemembers have dreamed of shooting things out of the sky with them. Lasers are used all the time in targeting, from the ...

“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 ...

In late 2024, the US Navy tested the HELIOS laser weapon system with the USS Preble destroyer against a threat-representative cruise missile, Naval News reported on February 4. Fu Qianshao ...

Using light against missiles and drones: Europe is developing its own laser weapons. The systems should be available by the end of the decade. The TALOS-TWO project (Tactical Advanced Laser ...

However, lasers are hardly a panacea, and they have a number of problems that need to be overcome if they are to become practical weapons. For starters, current laser systems require a human ...

In gestation for close to a decade, DragonFire is a laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) system developed by MBDA, Leonardo and QinetiQ in collaboration with the Defence Science and Technology ...