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. The system can ...

The recent deployment of portable directed energy weapons by the 460th Air Defense Artillery Regiment at Fort Sill has s ...

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 ...

The weapons is the high-energy laser with integrated optical dazzler and surveillance, more popularly known as HELIOS, and the Navy successfully test-fired the system last year and has more tests ...

The Director, Operational Test and Evaluation The Preble's 60-kilowatt laser weapon can work as a dazzler ... which developed the HELIOS, said in a press release: "HELIOS enhances the overall ...

In other words, the HELIOS is a laser weapon. What’s more, the HELIOS system is a response to the dangerous trends in modern warfare that the Ukraine War has highlighted: notably, what the ...

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 ...

including HELIOS. The tests are aimed at the "development and evaluation of directed energy weapons," according to the report. Lockheed Martin delivered the 60-kilowatt laser to the Navy in August ...

In this undated photo from fiscal 2024, the Preble fires its HELIOS system during weapons testing. (DOT&E) The U.S. Navy successfully tested its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler ...

“the U.S. Navy has not released any videos of High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system demonstration on USS Preble (DDG 88).” The weapon is still ...