During its Pacific patrol last year, the USS Preble successfully shot down an unmanned aerial target using its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this undated photo from fiscal 2024, the Preble fires its HELIOS system during weapons testing. (DOT&E) The U.S. Navy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An incredible image buried deep in an annual military report released last month shows the U.S. Navy test-firing a high-powered ...

Four drones had been shot down, and a long-standing promise of the Navy was made the more difficult to ignore. At-sea in 2025, the destroyer USS Preble was demonstrating its High-Energy Laser with ...

This image, released by the U.S. Office of the Director, Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), shows the U.S. Navy successfully testing a high-energy laser weapon mounted on one of its warships, according to a ...

Following a year of testing by the Surface Combat Systems Center Wallops Island, the U.S. Navy is planning to install the Lockheed Martin High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical dazzler and ...

Congress wants the Navy's HELIOS laser in a container. See why this move aims to give warships flexible, drone-killing power ...

The USS Preble at Naval Base San Diego in June. The HELIOS laser is visible just under the bridge. Navy photo Lockheed Martin has installed the first operational anti-missile laser aboard a San ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: ODIN and HELIOS could play important roles in Americas naval warfare strategy in the decades to come. The U.S. Navy is set to begin land-based testing of a “a ...

An incredible image buried deep in an annual military report released last month shows the U.S. Navy test-firing a high-powered laser weapon at a drone target from one of its warships. The photo of ...