Late last year, the U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG-88) conducted a test of its HELIOS weapons system against an airborne target. The syst ...

United States Navy destroyers have shot down dozens of ... These included Lockheed Martin's Layered Laser Defense (LLD), a ground-based high-power laser weapon system that the defense giant ...

An incredible photo showing the US Navy firing off a drone-destroying laser weapon - called HELIOS - from one of its warships is going viral on social media.

The U.S. Navy has developed a directed-energy weapon that can intercept unmanned drones and possibly cruise missiles while ...