Four drones had been shot down, and a long-standing promise of the Navy was made the more difficult to ignore. At-sea in 2025, the destroyer USS Preble was demonstrating its High-Energy Laser with ...

As drone warfare continues to expand, naval analysts increasingly see laser weapons as a critical component of future ship defenses, capable of neutralizing swarms of inexpensive unmanned aircraft ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS Preble successfully test fires the HELIOS directed-energy weapon at an unmanned aerial drone at an unreported time and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this undated photo from fiscal 2024, the Preble fires its HELIOS system during weapons testing. (DOT&E) The U.S. Navy ...

The latest military operation against Iran has introduced a new weapon system that has the power to revolutionize warfare in the future. During Operation Epic Fury as it is called, reportedly there ...