The US Navy successfully tested its new laser weapon mounted on a warship. The dramatic photo above depicts the High Energy ...

The USS Preble is the only U.S. destroyer armed with the HELIOS, which can fire laser beams to destroy fast attack craft and ...

A jaw-dropping new photo shows the US Navy firing off a drone-destroying laser weapon — dubbed “Helios” — from one of its ...

A report from the Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation included an undated photo showing a streak of white ...

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 destroyer Preble successfully test-fired its HELIOS system on a drone target, according to a recently released report.

The U.S. Navy’s High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system faced its first airborne ...

The HELIOS system, installed in 2022, is designed to neutralize drones, disable enemy sensors, and potentially counter ...

with a Solid State Laser - Technology Maturation Laser Weapon System Demonstrator (LWSD) MK 2 MOD 0 By Task & Purpose Posted on May 23, 2020 The amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27 ...

The U.S. Navy has developed a directed-energy weapon that can intercept unmanned drones and possibly cruise missiles while ...

The U.S. Navy has a brand new futuristic weapon it can use to take out a variety of targets, including drones: A 30 kilowatt Laser Weapon System (LaWS) that’s already been designated as an ...

In this era of Pentagon belt-tightening, the Navy's bigger selling point for the dawn of "the age of the laser weapons is financial." The LaWS prototype cost just under $32 million to make ...