In the vast expanse of the ocean, a streak of white light pierces the sky. It’s not lightning, but a weapon — a high-energy ...

Developed under a $150 million contract, the 60-kilowatt HELIOS system offers triple the power of the 20 kW AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System, or LaWS, that the Navy unveiled on the USS Ponce was back ...

According to USNI News, that laser weapon is likely the Lockheed Martin-made 150 kilowatt High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with Surveillance (HELIOS) system that’s been the Navy ...

One of them, called High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS), will soon be arming U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class DDG 51 Flight IIA destroyers.

Little other information has been publically released, but it is known that the ship was relocated from San Diego to Japan in September of 2024. HELIOS, a 60-kW directed-energy weapons platform ...

The High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) is a weapon system developed by Lockheed Martin capable of engaging targets at the speed of light.

The U.S. Navy just announced which ship will be first to be outfitted with HELIOS, a powerful anti-missile laser weapon. In 2021, the USS Preble, a destroyer operating out of the Pearl Harbor ...

HELIOS is a 60-kilowatt laser system, meaning it has twice the power of the AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System, or LaWS installed on the USS Ponce in 2014. HELIOS is billed as a weapon that can burn ...

Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A long-awaited seaborne defensive laser weapon system known as HELIOS was delivered to the U.S. Navy for testing, builder Lockheed Martin announced on Monday.

While ODIN and HELIOS are emerging laser weapons engineered with advanced technology for current and future applications, the Navy deployed its Laser Weapons System, or LAWs on the USS Ponce many ...