The USS Preble, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, has become the first ship in the American fleet to be equipped with the HELIOS system. This modern laser weapon combines the ability to destroy ...

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — A guided-missile destroyer equipped with a high-energy laser ... weapon’s effectiveness at sea. Sailors in dress whites manned the rails Saturday as the USS ...

A jaw-dropping new photo shows the US Navy firing off a drone-destroying laser weapon — dubbed Helios — from one of its warships. The undated image, which was published in the US Center for ...

The photo of the laser weapon in action was published in in ... U.S. Navy testing a weapon system known as HELIOS from the USS Preble destroyer in the middle of the ocean. The demo was “to ...

The destroyer, USS Preble, completed a switch of home port ... The Director, Operational Test and Evaluation The Preble's 60-kilowatt laser weapon can work as a dazzler to "blind" the intelligence ...

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The U.S. Navy’s only guided-missile destroyer equipped with a directed energy weapon is on its way to join the U.S. 7th Fleet in Japan. The USS Preble left its ...

This laser weapon is called the HELIOS laser system. It was fired from the USS Preble Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. This weapon has been specifically designed to counter threats from drones.

The USS Preble is the first U.S. Navy vessel equipped with HELIOS, a 60-kilowatt-class directed energy laser weapon developed by Lockheed Martin. It is also the first laser weapon integrated with the ...

The Navy has shown off its jaw-dropping new laser weapon ... on the testing of the directed-energy weapon installed on the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS. HELIOS is an advanced directed ...

U.S. Navy destroyer USS 'Preble', left, pulls into Naval Base San Diego in California on February 12. It is installed with HELIOS as a laser weapon, inset. U.S. Navy destroyer USS 'Preble', left ...

“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 ...