Allen Control Systems (ACS) has today announced that the US Marine Corps has selected its Bullfrog™ autonomous weapon system under the service’s Ground Based Air Defense (GBAD) programme to counter the growing threat of low-cost weaponized drones. The GBAD programme equips Marines with fully integrated air defence solutions that detect, track, and defeat airborne threats, including drones, missiles, and aircraft.
The Marine Corps will integrate Bullfrog into the Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System (L-MADIS), the service’s expeditionary counter-drone platform, through a prototype Other Transaction Agreement (OTA), increasing lethality and restoring maneuver for Marines on contested battlefields, according to a company press release.
Already deployed with the U.S. Army and Navy and validated through Joint Interagency Task Force 401 and allied military customers, Bullfrog combines AI, computer vision, and precision robotics to enable any legacy or modern firearm to detect, track, and defeat incoming threats at a fraction of the cost of even the least expensive kinetic interceptors, says the company.
The proliferation of drone warfare from Ukraine to the Middle East has exposed the enormous
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Allen Control Systems Selected for U.S. Marine Corps Ground Based Air Defense Program
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