
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on Monday it has delivered its production unit 100-kW-range High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with Surveillance (HELIOS) to the Navy for installment on a destroyer later this year and said it has additional capability beyond the initial requirements. HELIOS sends out a single laser beam to relatively small targets like unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and small fast attack boats, provides a counter-UAS intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance dazzler capability, and feeds additional ISR data into a…