The undated image shows the U.S. Navy testing a weapon system known as HELIOS from the USS Preble destroyer in the middle of the ocean.

Let’s talk about lasers—not the kind from your favorite sci-fi movie, but the real, high-powered beams the U.S. Navy is ...

A videoshared on X claims to show the USS Preble firing a laser weapon. Verdict: Misleading The video is artificial intelligence. The image it is based on, though, is real. Fact Check: Social ...

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 ...

The Helios weapon, which uses a 60 kW high-energy laser that can engage targets at the speed of light, is an advanced directed energy system developed for the US by Lockheed Martin.

Amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) conducts a high-energy laser weapon system demonstration on a static surface training target, Dec. 14, while sailing in the Gulf of Aden.

The High-Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-Dazzler with Surveillance (HELIOS) is now being integrated onto the USS Preble,... Kris Osborn February 8, 2022 ...

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 ...

But the laser is much faster to recharge, kill, and reset to another incoming object. Wait until they get into the terawatt range and can fry an entire bomber in milliseconds. Or refocus and drop ...

120730-N-PO203-107 SAN DIEGO (July 30, 2012) The Laser Weapon System (LaWS) temporarily installed aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) in San Diego, Calif., is a technology ...

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 ...