This is my objective, provided it can be seen by a ship, the initial solution which we are presently considering is directed energy. The purpose described by Adm. Daryl Caudle is the reason why the ...

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 ...

The USS Preble, the only Navy destroyer outfitted with a high-energy laser capable of shooting down drones and missiles, has left San Diego for Yokosuka, Japan, where it will be homeported for the ...

During its Pacific patrol last year, the USS Preble successfully shot down an unmanned aerial target using its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) system.

Social media users are claiming a video shows the USS Preble firing a laser weapon. One user wrote, “The US Navy released a clip of the USS Preble firing a HELIOS laser weapon. The High Energy Laser ...

BAE Systems' ship repair business in San Diego has won a potential $117.8M U.S. Navy contract to help the Chief of Naval Operations prepare for a scheduled depot maintenance of the Arleigh Burke-class ...

The Pearl Harbor destroyer USS Preble and its crew of more than 300 have angered China twice this week with a transit of the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday and a South China Sea passage Monday close to ...

PHILIPPINE SEA -- Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Mark Bramlett, from Lafayette, Louisiana, clears the ship's bridge during a visit, board, search and seizure drill aboard the Arleigh Burke-class ...

The destroyer USS Preble is back home in Pearl Harbor and thousands of sailors and Marines are on the town with the arrival today of an aircraft carrier strike group and big amphibious assault ship.