Marines Forward-Deploy Portable Drone-Killing System - USNI News

Thank you my friend CW5 Jack Cardwell for making us aware that the forward-deployed Marines are using a new Ground-Based Air Defense (GBAD) Counter-UAS system to protect U.S. troops from the threat of cheap and lethal unmanned aerial vehicles.

"THE PENTAGON — Forward-deployed Marines are using a new system to protect U.S. troops from the threat of cheap and lethal unmanned aerial vehicles, the service told USNI News last week.
The Marine Corps’ Ground-Based Air Defense (GBAD) Counter-UAS system was developed over the last two years to detect, identify, track and defeat small unmanned aircraft are that are putting forward forces at risk, said Lt. Col. David Sousa, who works in the office of the deputy commandant for combat development and integration.
“A couple of years ago the Marine Corps started heavily pursuing a counter-UAS capability. We’ve utilized drones on the offensive [information, surveillance and reconnaissance] capabilities for decades now, but we didn’t look at the counter side of this until the threat started to evolve,” Sousa said.
“We had that air superiority, air supremacy, air parity if you will. But as that threat started to evolve for the low, slow, small, that’s where these requirements were derived from.”
GBAD combines systems like the existing RADA RPS-42 S-band radar, the Sierra Nevada Modi electronic warfare system, Lockheed Martin visual sensors and the Raytheon Coyote anti-drone UAV to allow air defense Marines to detect, track and destroy hostile drones. The Marines took the systems and sought integration help from Naval Surface Warfare Centers Crane and Dahlgren, Maj. Ho Lee with Program Executive Office Land Systems told USNI News.
“We’ve been trying to use existing systems inside the Marine Corps, or ones we’re already working on and repurpose it for different missions,” he said.
“That’s what we’ve been doing for the last two years is rapid prototyping.”
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Interesting post. Glad they have some counter technology

Great that they they have the technology to take out the drones.