YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The U.S. Navy’s only guided-missile destroyer equipped with a directed energy weapon is on its way to join the U.S. 7th Fleet in Japan. The USS Preble left its ...

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 ...

USS Preble, which recently arrived at Yokosuka Naval Base, is the only U.S. warship equipped with the High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, system.

The USS Preble is the only U.S. destroyer armed with the HELIOS, which can fire laser beams to destroy fast attack craft and drones.

The USS Preble successfully test fires the HELIOS directed-energy weapon at an unmanned aerial drone at an unreported time and location in 2024. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense.

The undated image shows the U.S. Navy testing a weapon system known as HELIOS from the USS Preble destroyer in the middle of the ocean. The demo was “to verify and validate the functionality, ...

The USS Preble is the first U.S. Navy vessel equipped with HELIOS, a 60-kilowatt-class directed energy laser weapon developed by Lockheed Martin. It is also the first laser weapon integrated with the ...

The undated image, which was published in the US Center for Countermeasures' annual report this month, captured the warfighting laser technology being shot from the USS Preble destroyer in the ...

U.S. Navy destroyer USS 'Preble', left, pulls into Naval Base San Diego in California on February 12. It is installed with HELIOS as a laser weapon, inset.

A FUTURISTIC drone-destroying laser has been seen firing from a US Navy warship in an incredible declassified image. The remarkable picture shows the USS Preble (DDG-88) deploying its formidable HE… ...

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 ...