High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and …
The High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) is a Lockheed Martin-developed 300 kilowatt high-energy laser weapon designed to intercept combat drones, fast-attack craft, and missiles. [1] After winning the contract in 2018, the first announced installation was on the USS Preble (DDG-88) in 2019. [2] By 2021 it was reportedly deployed onto an Arleigh Burke ...
More Than a Laser, HELIOS is an Integrated Weapon System
The High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, provides the U.S. Navy with game-changing directed energy capability through integration of high energy laser and optical dazzler technology into the ship and combat system.
Incredible image captures US Navy testing its new laser weapon
2 days ago · The High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) is a weapon system developed by Lockheed Martin capable of engaging targets at the speed of light.
US Navy successfully tests HELIOS laser weapon. All about it
2 days ago · HELIOS, developed by Lockheed Martin, is a high-energy laser system designed to neutralize enemy threats through two primary attack modes, Hard Kill which directly destroys a target using high-intensity laser beams, and Soft Kill which disrupts electronic components of enemy systems, effectively blinding or disabling them.
U.S. Navy HELIOS laser test underscores greater advancements in ...
3 days ago · The U.S. Navy’s High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system faced its first airborne target during a test in 2024, a first-time for the HELIOS program that will help the U.S. Navy inform other programs under the Directed Energy and Electric Weapon System effort.
US Navy hits drone with HELIOS laser in successful test
3 days ago · The U.S. Navy successfully tested its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, system on one of its warships in fiscal 2024, according to a recently released ...
Navy HELIOS Laser Aboard USS Preble Zaps Drone In Latest Test
3 days ago · Unlike HELIOS, ODIN’s laser can only be used as a dazzler, but it also has secondary surveillance capabilities. In late 2021, the year before HELIOS debuted aboard the Preble, the San Antonio class amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland engaged a static surface target with its laser directed energy weapon in the Gulf of Aden.
• 60kW+ High Energy Laser for Counter Fast Inshore Attack Craft (FIAC) and Counter UAS • Long Range Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) • Counter UAS-mounted ISR (C-ISR) Dazzler
HELIOS is a transformational new weapon system, providing deep magazine, low cost per kill, speed of light delivery and precision response. HELIOS will be the first tactically integrated laser weapon system, with both dazzle and destroy capability, fielded to …
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Aug 18, 2022 · Integrated and scalable by design, the multi-mission HELIOS system will provide tactically relevant laser weapon system warfighting capability as a key element of a layered defense architecture.