USS Preble is the service’s first destroyer to be equipped with the HELIOS 60-kilowatt directed energy laser system. A ...

In other words, the HELIOS is a laser weapon. HELIOS was put on display by the United States Navy. In October 2024, the USS Preble, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, was equipped with the HELIOS ...

The weapon is still being tested and evaluated and has not been permanently deployed on ships, the spokesperson added. No other photos of HELIOS are available in the DOT&E annual report ...

but the laser isn't the weapon. That's finally changing, though. The Army's high energy laser program is moving forward, and the U.S. Navy has been testing its HELIOS system on the USS Preble (DDG ...

The USS Preble successfully test fires the HELIOS directed-energy weapon at an unmanned aerial drone at an unreported time and location in 2024. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense ...

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Preble deployed its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system to neutralise an aerial drone during a weapons exercise in ...

While only a few of the Navy’s vessels feature the new weapon, experts expect HELIOS and similar directed energy weapons to be incorporated into the fleet’s warships in the imminent future.