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

Feb. 5 (UPI) --The U.S. Navy has developed a directed-energy weapon that can intercept unmanned drones and possibly cruise missiles while enhancing naval operations in combat areas. The weapons is ...

but the laser isn't the weapon. That's finally changing, though. The Army's high energy laser program is moving forward, and the U.S. Navy has been testing its HELIOS system on the USS Preble (DDG ...

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. The demo was “to verify and validate the functionality, ...

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 ...

While only a few of the Navy’s vessels feature the new weapon, experts expect HELIOS and similar directed energy weapons to be incorporated into the fleet’s warships in the imminent future.

The USS Preble successfully test fires the HELIOS directed-energy weapon at an unmanned aerial drone at an unreported time and location in 2024. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense ...