Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this undated photo from fiscal 2024, the Preble fires its HELIOS system during weapons testing. (DOT&E) The U.S. Navy ...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (NasdaqGS:KTOS) selected Odon, Indiana for a new hypersonic materials test facility under Project Helios. The facility is intended to support hypersonic weapons and ...

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 ...

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 Iran war, now in its third week, is already proving costly: on Friday, a Trump administration official said the conflict had so far cost $12 billion (€10.4bn), or just under $1 billion a day. Iran ...

Feb. 5 (UPI) --The U.S. Navy has developed a directed-energy weapon that can intercept unmanned drones and possibly cruise missiles while enhancing naval operations in combat areas. The weapons is the ...