A videoshared on X claims to show the USS Preble firing a laser weapon. Verdict: Misleading The video is artificial intelligence. The image it is based on, though, is real. Fact Check: Social ...

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 ...

Let’s talk about lasers—not the kind from your favorite sci-fi movie, but the real, high-powered beams the U.S. Navy is ...

The undated image shows the U.S. Navy testing a weapon system known as HELIOS from the USS Preble destroyer in the middle of the ocean.

The image published in an annual Navy report shows the High Energy Laser on USS Preble being tested on a drone target. U.S. Navy unveils photo of warship firing high-powered laser weapon Skip to ...

The U.S. Navy is arming its destroyers with a high-powered, long-range laser weapon. ... (HELIOS) is now being integrated onto the USS Preble,... Kris Osborn; February 8, 2022 ...

USS Preble is the service’s first destroyer to be equipped with the HELIOS 60-kilowatt directed energy laser system. ... its own high-powered laser weapon, against aerial targets.