High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and …
The High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) is a Lockheed Martin-developed 300 kilowatt high-energy laser weapon designed to intercept combat drones, fast-attack craft, and missiles. [1] After winning the contract in 2018, the first announced installation was on the USS Preble (DDG-88) in 2019. [2] By 2021 it was reportedly deployed …
US Navy successfully tests HELIOS laser weapon. All about it
2 days ago · HELIOS, developed by Lockheed Martin, is a high-energy laser system designed to neutralize enemy threats through two primary attack modes, Hard Kill which directly destroys a target using high-intensity laser beams, and Soft Kill which disrupts electronic components of enemy systems, effectively blinding or disabling them.
U.S. Navy HELIOS laser test underscores greater advancements in ...
3 days ago · The U.S. Navy’s High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system faced its first airborne target during a test in 2024, a first-time for the HELIOS program that will help the U.S. Navy inform other programs under the Directed Energy and Electric Weapon System effort.
Image captures US Navy testing its new laser weapon: What to …
What is the HELIOS weapon? The High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) is a weapon system developed by Lockheed Martin capable of engaging targets at the speed ...
US Navy hits drone with HELIOS laser in successful test
2 days ago · The U.S. Navy successfully tested its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, system on one of its warships in fiscal 2024, according to a recently released ...
HELIOS: US tests laser weapons that can fry enemy drone 5 miles …
HELIOS, a 60-kW directed-energy weapons platform, was installed aboard the Preble in 2022. The weapon has replaced one of Preble’s pair of Mk 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) just in ...
More Than a Laser, HELIOS is an Integrated Weapon System
The High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, provides the U.S. Navy with game-changing directed energy capability through integration of high energy laser and optical dazzler technology into the ship and combat system.
• 60kW+ High Energy Laser for Counter Fast Inshore Attack Craft (FIAC) and Counter UAS • Long Range Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) • Counter UAS-mounted ISR (C-ISR) Dazzler
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Aug 18, 2022 · Integrated and scalable by design, the multi-mission HELIOS system will provide tactically relevant laser weapon system warfighting capability as a key element of a layered defense architecture.
Increased High Energy Laser Power Levels Additional Combat System Integration Equipment Commonality. 60kW+ High Energy Laser for Counter Fast Inshore Attack Craft (FIAC) and Counter UAS Long Range Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) Counter UAS-mounted ISR (C-ISR) Dazzler.