The High Energy Laser Counter Anti-Ship Cruise Missile Project ... Meanwhile, the Optical Dazzling Interdictor, Navy, known as ODIN, doesn't try to destroy a drone, instead focusing on taking ...

The US Navy is helping to eliminate the need for ... and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), a new tracking system for anti-drone lasers is being developed that uses AI to overcome human ...

The way the Navy uses lasers against drones goes a bit like this. Once the radar picks up the signature of an incoming uncrewed autonomous systems (UAS, the official military term for drones), it ...

Naturally, the reality of anti-drone laser technology will be nothing like ... in or around a contested battleground. Credit: US Navy, public domain It comes at a time that other laser weapon ...

It's no surprise that the U.S. Navy has a massive suite of high-tech weapons. But the looming threat of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, has forced the Navy to put some of ...

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 US Navy demonstrated its new HELIOS laser weapon that intercepts enemy drones, missiles, and sensors. The Pentagon’s annual Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) report shows the ...

Turkish defense firm Aselsan successfully tested a mobile laser weapons system that counters drone attacks. Aselsan said ...

The HELIOS laser weapon system being fired from the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Preble. (CCM via SWNS) By Dean Murray The Navy has ... such as combat drones, fast-attack ...

The Portuguese navy recently ordered the world’s first ... giving the defense superiority over the offense. But area-wide anti-drone weapons, which can range from directed energy systems through ...