Combining a high-energy laser with an optical dazzler, HELIOS can both destroy and disable threats, as well as disrupt enemy sensors. Today, the United States finds itself living in a world that its ...

America's Navy struggles to make its dreams of lasers at sea a reality.

The United States Navy (the Navy) has reported testing its High-Energy Laser with an Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system to take out an aerial target drone. The test was ...

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 ...

A handout file picture from the US Navy showing the USS Harry S Truman with F/A-18 and F-16 jets flying overhead. AFP The U.S. Navy successfully tested its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical ...

USS Preble’s deployment of the High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, has become a showcase for how shipboard lasers can neutralize multiple drones while ...

The Pentagon's Director of Operational Testing & Evaluation has released a rare image of the U.S. Navy's HELIOS anti-drone laser in action. One prototype unit was mounted aboard the destroyer USS ...

The Navy has now taken possession of a half-dozen new laser weapons for integration onto surface warships, officials said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Surface Navy Association’s annual conference in ...

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 ...

The Demonstrator Laser Weapon System, acting as a ground-based test surrogate for the SHiELD system, was able to engage and shoot down several air-launched missiles during tests at the High Energy ...

The U.S. Navy has taken delivery of its first operational HELIOS (High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance) laser system. The Lockheed-designed laser was installed aboard a ...