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

The USS Preble, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, has become the first ship in the American fleet to be equipped with the HELIOS system. This modern laser weapon combines the ability to destroy ...

“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 ...

Social media users are claiming a video shows the USS Preble firing a laser weapon. One user wrote, “The US Navy released a clip of the USS Preble firing a HELIOS laser weapon. The High Energy ...

A handout file picture from the US Navy showing the USS Harry S Truman with F ... be installed on an existing warship. The Preble's 60-kilowatt laser weapon can blind intelligence, surveillance ...

The Navy has shown off its jaw-dropping new laser weapon ... on the testing of the directed-energy weapon installed on the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS. HELIOS is an advanced directed ...

The US Navy has unveiled its impressive new laser weapon ... the directed-energy weapon was tested on the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS. Developed by Lockheed Martin, HELIOS is a sophisticated ...

The US Navy demonstrated its new HELIOS laser weapon that intercepts enemy ... report shows the USS Preble firing the high-energy armament. That amount of power can power up to 60 homes.

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 ...

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 ...