The US Navy has officially unveiled its latest and most powerful addition to its arsenal,the HELIOS laser weapon. After more ...

One of them, called High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS), will soon be arming U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class DDG 51 Flight IIA destroyers.

HELIOS, on the other hand, is a considerably more powerful laser with bigger ambitions. The weapon can blind camera sensors like ODIN, but the Navy hopes it’s powerful enough to destroy incoming ...

But as Janes noted in April, the service’s fiscal year 2023 budget proposal designated its wide-ranging Navy Laser Family of Systems, which the HELIOS falls under, as “an accelerated ...

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 ...

An incredible image buried deep in an annual military report released last month shows the U.S. Navy test-firing a high-powered laser weapon at a drone target from one of its warships.. The photo ...

HELIOS was first installed as a 60-plus-kilowatt laser in August 2022, making it the first high-energy tactical laser system on a U.S. naval vessel.

Pew-pew-pew is coming soon-soon-soon. The U.S. Navy plans to put a laser weapon on a warship by 2021. The High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system, or ...

Developed under a $150 million contract, the 60-kilowatt HELIOS system offers triple the power of the 20 kW AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System, or LaWS, that the Navy unveiled on the USS Ponce was back ...

A jaw-dropping new photo shows the US Navy firing off a drone-destroying laser weapon — dubbed Helios — from one of its warships. The undated image, which was published in the US Center for ...

Enter Helios, an anti-laser laser that aims to protect drones and other vehicles. Laser weapons have been around for a few decades, but they are becoming much more widely used.