U.S. Navy HELIOS laser test underscores greater advancements in ...
Feb 4, 2025 · The U.S. Navy’s High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system faced its first airborne target during a test in 2024, a first-time for the HELIOS program that will help the U.S. Navy inform other programs under the Directed Energy and Electric Weapon System effort.
U.S. Navy’s laser weapon test on USS Preble: A game-changer in …
5 days ago · The U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Preble (DDG 88) has successfully tested the High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system, a 60-kilowatt-class directed energy laser weapon developed by Lockheed Martin. HELIOS represents a significant shift in naval defense, offering virtually unlimited magazine capacity, rapid engagement capabilities and ...
More Than a Laser, HELIOS is an Integrated Weapon System
The High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, provides the U.S. Navy with game-changing directed energy capability through integration of high energy laser and optical dazzler technology into the ship and combat system.
Incredible image captures US Navy testing its new laser weapon
6 days ago · 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,...
US Navy hits drone with HELIOS laser in successful test
Feb 4, 2025 · The U.S. Navy successfully tested its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, system on one of its warships in fiscal 2024, according to a recently released ...
U.S. Navy intercepted test drone with HELIOS directed-energy …
The HELIOS system is a type of direct-energy weapon, which the Navy confirmed is a viable weapon for intercepting aerial targets that might endanger U.S. Navy ships and other targets.
Navy HELIOS Laser Aboard USS Preble Zaps Drone In Latest Test
Feb 4, 2025 · The Navy has disclosed that the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Preble successfully test-fired its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance system to take out an aerial target drone in Fiscal Year 2024. It was the latest major demonstration of the surface fleet’s shipboard laser ambitions, even as other U.S. military laser efforts have faced a reality check in ...
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 18, 2022 – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered to the U.S. Navy a 60+ kW-class high energy laser with integrated optical-dazzler and surveillance (HELIOS), the first tactical laser weapon system to be integrated into existing ships and provide directed energy capability to the fleet. Integrated and scalable by design, the ...
Lockheed Martin Delivers HELIOS Laser Weapon System to U.S. Navy
Aug 18, 2022 · Lockheed Martin delivered to the U.S. Navy a 60+ kW-class high energy laser with integrated optical-dazzler and surveillance (HELIOS), the first tactical laser weapon system to be integrated into existing ships and provide directed energy capability to the fleet.
Lockheed Martin delivers first HELIOS weapon system to US Navy
Aug 19, 2022 · Lockheed Martin’s integrated and scalable HELIOS system will provide directed energy capability to the US Navy fleet. It features deep magazine, low-cost per kill along with a speed of light delivery and accurate response, thereby providing an additional layer of …