USS Preble is the service’s first destroyer to be equipped with the HELIOS 60-kilowatt directed energy laser system. A ...

The development of the HELIOS system began in 2018 with a $150 million contract with Lockheed Martin. The system underwent crucial tests in 2020, and its integration on the USS Preble began in 2021.

AFP The U.S. Navy successfully tested its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system aboard the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Preble last year ...

Destined for duty aboard the USS Fort Worth, which is launching from San Diego later this year, it will mark the first time the helos have been deployed to the Pacific. The Fire Scout, officially ...

The U.S. Center for Countermeasures (CCM)'s document reveals details on the testing of the directed-energy weapon installed on the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS. HELIOS is an advanced directed ...

The United States Navy (the Navy) has reported testing its High-Energy Laser with an Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system to take out an aerial target drone. The test was ...

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Preble deployed its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system to neutralise an aerial drone during a weapons exercise in ...

“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 ...

One user wrote, “The US Navy released a clip of the USS Preble firing a HELIOS laser weapon. The High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-Dazzler and Surveillance will be used primarily to ...

According to the U.S. Center for Countermeasures's report, the directed-energy weapon was tested on the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS. Developed by Lockheed Martin, HELIOS is a sophisticated ...

The HELIOS laser weapon system being fired from the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Preble. (CCM via SWNS) By Dean Murray The Navy has shown off its jaw-dropping new laser weapon.