An artist's conception of HELIOS installed on a US Navy Arleigh Burke class destroyer. Lockheed Martin
Warzone/The Drive: Navy Littoral Combat Ship Will Soon Be Armed With A Laser Weapon System
The USS Little Rock is poised to become the third active Navy ship to be equipped with a new laser weapon.
The U.S. Navy says the Freedom class Littoral Combat Ship USS Little Rock will get a 150-kilowatt class laser weapon system from Lockheed Martin this year. This would make Little Rock the third of the service's warships to be fitted with a high-power laser of some kind, following the installation of two different designs on the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Dewey and the San Antonio class landing platform dock amphibious ship USS Portland last year. The War Zone was first to report that both of these vessels had gotten their respective lasers.
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WNU Editor: The US Navy is betting big on this technology.
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