The USS Preble, the only Navy destroyer outfitted with a high-energy laser capable of shooting down drones and missiles, has left San Diego for Yokosuka, Japan, where it will be homeported for the ...
During its Pacific patrol last year, the USS Preble successfully shot down an unmanned aerial target using its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system.
Social media users are claiming a video shows the USS Preble firing a laser weapon. One user wrote, “The US Navy released a clip of the USS Preble firing a HELIOS laser weapon. The High Energy Laser ...
“This is my goal: If it’s in line of sight of a ship, the first solution that we’re using is directed energy.” The following line by Adm. Daryl Caudle explains the importance of the recent laser shoot ...
PHILIPPINE SEA -- Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Mark Bramlett, from Lafayette, Louisiana, clears the ship's bridge during a visit, board, search and seizure drill aboard the Arleigh Burke-class ...
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 ...
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group (TRCSG) entered the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations (AOO) Oct. 23, to conduct ...