Search for: Home » Budget Industry » Navy Installing More Directed Energy Weapons on DDGs, Conducting Land-Based Laser Testing This Year Navy Installing More Directed Energy Weapons on DDGs, Conducting Land-Based Laser Testing This Year Artist’s concept of a HELIOS laser system aboard a U.S. destroyer. Lockheed Martin Image RIVERDALE, Md. – The Navy continues to learn more about a pair of directed energy weapons, as the service installs the fourth and fifth dazzler system this year and begins land-based testing of a high-energy laser weapon, the program executive officer for integrated warfare systems told USNI News. The Navy has been in parallel working on an Optical Dazzling Interdictor, Navy (ODIN) program, a nonlethal weapon that can confuse instead of shoot down drones, which will become part of the High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) program that Lockheed Martin has been developing since 2018.