Combining a high-energy laser with an optical dazzler, HELIOS can both destroy and disable threats, as well as disrupt enemy sensors. Today, the United States finds itself living in a world that its ...

Small US aerospace project Helios Horizon claims to have recently broken the record for the highest-flying multi-seat electric aircraft, which it considers a step on its journey into the stratosphere.

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 ...

Miguel Iturmendi is taking an electric plane to new heights. Last June, he flew the Helios Horizon plane 16,300 feet over Lake Tahoe, breaking the world altitude record for an electric plane weighing ...

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.

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 ...