USS Preble’s deployment of the High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, has become a showcase for how shipboard lasers can neutralize multiple drones while ...

What good is a weapon with an almost bottomless magazine if the ship carrying it is running short on the electricity to make ...

Smoke rose from a drone after it was shot down by a 50-kW laser mounted on a U.S. Army Stryker vehicle. Credit: U.S. Army ...

Details of the event were kept secret for a long time.

During its Pacific patrol last year, the USS Preble successfully shot down an unmanned aerial target using its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system.

Ever since lasers were invented in 1960, defense contractors and servicemembers have dreamed of shooting things out of the sky with them. Lasers are used all the time in targeting, from the ...

The High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, deployed on a US naval ship, downed several drones last week. Here’s what you need to know about the game-changing technology. V ...

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-Energy ...