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

The USS Preble, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, has become the first ship in the American fleet to be equipped with the HELIOS system. This modern laser weapon combines the ability to destroy ...

“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 ...

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 88). The Navy's High Energy ...

In late 2024, the US Navy tested the HELIOS laser weapon system with the USS Preble destroyer against a threat-representative cruise missile, Naval News reported on February 4. Fu Qianshao ...

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 ...