That system is the High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS). In other words, the HELIOS is a laser weapon. HELIOS was put on display by the United States Navy.

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 Navy has shown off its jaw-dropping new laser weapon. The HELIOS system can be seen firing from a warship in an internal military report, published in January, showcasing the latest ...

“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 fielding such a system, Ukraine would join an elite club of significant military-industrial powers that have developed ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Preble is the service’s first destroyer to be equipped with the 60-kilowatt directed energy laser system. While only a few of the Navy’s vessels feature the new weapon, experts expect HELIOS ...