The Navy has now taken possession of a half-dozen new laser weapons for integration onto surface warships, officials said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Surface Navy Association’s annual conference in ...

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 ...

Buckle your seatbelts folks, because we’re on the highway to the laser zone. Defense contractor Lockheed Martin announced on Monday that it had delivered its High Energy Laser with Integrated ...

Following a year of testing by the Surface Combat Systems Center Wallops Island, the U.S. Navy is planning to install the Lockheed Martin High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical dazzler and ...

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 of ...

The Iran war, now in its third week, is already proving costly: on Friday, a Trump administration official said the conflict had so far cost $12 billion (€10.4bn), or just under $1 billion a day. Iran ...

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 ...

Combining a high-energy laser with an optical dazzler, HELIOS can both destroy and disable threats, as well as disrupt enemy sensors. Today, the United States finds itself living in a world that its ...

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 and ...

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 ...