The U.S. Center for Countermeasures’ released the photo of the USS Preble using the laser weapon, referred to as “HELIOS” in its annual report. In the report, the U.S. Center for ...

A handout file picture from the US Navy showing the USS Harry S Truman with F/A-18 and ... tests in fiscal 2024 to evaluate directed energy weapons, including HELIOS. The tests are aimed at ...

This laser weapon is called the HELIOS laser system. It was fired from the USS Preble Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. This weapon has been specifically designed to counter threats from drones.

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

captured the warfighting laser technology being fired from the USS Preble destroyer in the middle of the ocean. CCM / SWNS It comes after the UK tested its own high-powered laser weapon — dubbed ...

The U.S. Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon, which is being retrofitted aboard the first of its three stealthy destroyers.

The US Navy has released stunning images showing its incredible new drone-destroying laser weapon in action for the first time. The HELIOS system was tested aboard the USS Preble, with photos ...

On Dec. 22, the USS Gettysburg crew fired on an F/A-18 that had just flown off the deck of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, destroying the aircraft and forcing its two ...

Barely clothed Marines huddled exhausted next to their coffin-style bunks stacked to the ceiling below deck on the USS Boxer after midnight in March 2016. They were extremely tired after a long ...

An aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday a US call for Ukraine to hold an election after agreeing to a ceasefire with Russia looked like a “failed plan” if that was all it ...