Sponsor Department of Defence


he 300kW-class High-Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWS) is being developed as part of the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) High Energy Laser Scaling Initiative (HELSI) programme to develop high-performance directed energy weapons (DEW) for the US Armed Forces and enhance their combat power against constantly evolving threats.
The HELSI will support the US Army’s broader Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser (IFPC-HEL) programme, which aims to safeguard stationary and partially stationary sites against rockets, artillery, mortars, unmanned aerial systems and both rotary and fixed-wing threats.
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