Preble is the service’s first destroyer to be equipped with the 60-kilowatt directed energy laser system. While only a few of the Navy’s vessels feature the new weapon, experts expect HELIOS ...

The UK has been testing out a range of new strike capabilities on its warships in recent years, including the DragonFire ...

The Navy’s top officer revealed a laser weapon installed on a destroyer to test an ability to disable drones and small boats has had problems in testing ...

The U.S. is losing the hypersonic arms race to China—but a formidable, new weapon could change the game. When the U.S. Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford deployed for ...

The U.S. Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon, which is being retrofitted aboard the first of its three stealthy destroyers.

In addition, the destroyer's 127-millimeter deck-mounted automatic cannon was fired, along with its anti-ship tactical guided weapons, smoke generators, and radio interference systems. The tests ...

ANKARA (AA) - North Korea Wednesday said it conducted the first test-firing of its new 5,000-ton destroyer's weapons system earlier this week, state media reported. Under the inspection of North ...

Destroyer Che yong during weapons test this week. KCNA Photo North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for accelerating the nuclear weapon capability of the Korean People’s Army Navy as he saw the ...

The new "multi-purpose" destroyer, weighing in at 5,000 tonnes, was touted as the first in a new class of heavily armed warships. It is equipped with the "most powerful weapons" and was built ...