Preble is the service’s first destroyer to be equipped with the 60-kilowatt directed energy laser system. While only a few of the Navy’s vessels feature the new weapon, experts expect HELIOS ...

The US Navy has released a photo of the USS Preble test-firing its HELIOS laser weapon system. This could be the future of naval warfare, marking a significant advancement in countering asymmetric ...

In a recent interview with Radio Svoboda, he revealed that Ukraine has become one of the few countries capable of using laser technology in combat. Ukraine is currently testing a domestically ...

Tehran has outfitted basic commercial ships with carrier decks and asymmetric offensive weapons such as combat drones ... Iran to imperil regional maritime shipping and threaten the United States’ ...

As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American ...

MCLEAN, Va., March 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Mission Technologies division was selected to develop an open architecture High-Energy Laser (HEL) weapon ...

HII will develop and test a prototype high-energy laser (HEL) weapon system to defeat unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) with a ...

In fielding such a system, Ukraine would join an elite club of significant military-industrial powers that have developed ...

James Stavridis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a retired US Navy admiral, former supreme allied commander of NATO, and vice chairman of global affairs at the Carlyle Group. Over the past couple ...