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

This image, released by the U.S. Office of the Director, Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), shows the U.S. Navy successfully ...

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

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 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Preble fired its HELIOS system to zap an aerial ... when it became the first tactical laser system to be installed in existing ships. Unmanned warfare, especially ...

Like Reagan’s never-fulfilled plan for a system to “intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached ...

The U.S. Navy tested a powerful new laser weapon called HELIOS, capable of downing drones at the speed of light.

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.

Combining a high-energy laser with an optical dazzler, HELIOS can both destroy and disable threats, as well as disrupt enemy ...