USS Preble is the service’s first destroyer to be equipped with the HELIOS 60-kilowatt directed energy laser system. A stunning image from earlier this month depicting the U.S. Navy’s High-Energy ...
The U.S. Navy’s push to mount high‑energy laser weapons on surface ships is no longer a distant concept but a contract‑backed ...
When the Navy is ready to deploy a new 60kw ship-fired laser weapon from a destroyer later this year, maritime attack strategy and tactics will enter new dimensions of massive warfare on the open seas ...
The U.S. Navy has quietly crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction, using a high energy laser to burn ...
The U.S. Navy is arming its destroyers with a high-powered, long-range laser weapon. The High-Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-Dazzler with Surveillance (HELIOS) is now being integrated onto the ...
A Navy destroyer recently got a major power-up when a laser was installed during a recent dry dock period, the service announced on Thursday. The USS Dewey is the first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer ...