The Navy sees HELIOS and other directed energy weapons as critical capabilities, but has faced persistent challenges in ...
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USS Preble’s HELIOS laser hit four drones and exposed the Navy’s power problem
“This is my goal: If it’s in line of sight of a ship, the first solution that we’re using is directed energy.” This is a quote by Adm. Daryl Caudle, and it sums up the reason the U.S. Navy destroyer ...
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US Navy’s powerful new laser weapon vaporizes drone threats at sea
The U.S. Navy has quietly crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction, using a high energy laser to burn ...
The US Navy has confirmed that a frontline destroyer has successfully used a ship-mounted laser weapon to defeat multiple ...
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