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DDG-88 To Install Lockheed Martin HELIOS Laser This Year

Friday, January 14th, 2022

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DDG-88 To Install Lockheed Martin HELIOS Laser This Year

Artist rendering of Lockheed Martin's HELIOS laser weapons system used on an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. (Image: Lockheed Martin)

Lockheed Martin [LMT] this week said it is packaging a laser weapon system that is set to be installed on the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Preble (DDG-88) this year. The company’s High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with Surveillance (HELIOS) system completed testing at Wallops Island, Va., in the fall and is currently being packaged and will be shipped to San Diego for installation on DDG-88, Jeanine Matthews, a Lockheed Martin official who oversees integrated warfare systems, told reporters during…

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