The USS Preble, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, has become the first ship in the American fleet to be equipped with the HELIOS system. This modern laser weapon combines the ability to destroy ...

HELIOS remains in the at-sea testing phase ... “Deploying the most capable surface ships, such as USS Preble, and superior technology forward ensures the United States is best able to honor ...

HELIOS can “dazzle,” or blind ... the Congressional Research Service found. The Preble replaces the guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold, which is due to relocate soon to Everett, Wash., ...

The destroyer, USS Preble, completed a switch of home port ... and capability" of the HELIOS against a drone. It was not clear when and where exactly the weapon demonstration took place.

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 ...

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. The demo was “to verify and validate the functionality ...

U.S. Navy personnel aboard the destroyer USS Preble at an unknown time and location affirmed the HELIOS system works during demonstration intended to "verify and validate the functionality ...

The USS Preble is the first U.S. Navy vessel equipped with HELIOS, a 60-kilowatt-class directed energy laser weapon developed by Lockheed Martin. It is also the first laser weapon integrated with the ...

A jaw-dropping new photo shows the US Navy firing off a drone-destroying laser weapon — dubbed Helios — from one ... technology being fired from the USS Preble destroyer in the middle of ...

The remarkable picture shows the USS Preble (DDG-88) deploying its formidable HELIOS laser system out at sea as Washington continues to prepare in the face of incoming enemy threats. An unmanned ...

U.S. Navy destroyer USS 'Preble', left, pulls into Naval Base San Diego in California on February 12. It is installed with HELIOS as a laser weapon, inset. U.S. Navy destroyer USS 'Preble', left ...