{"id":16853,"date":"2019-04-04T20:10:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/04\/04\/to-fight-drone-swarms-the-corps-wants-a-battle-drone-that-can-kill-other-drones\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:16:31","slug":"to-fight-drone-swarms-the-corps-wants-a-battle-drone-that-can-kill-other-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/unmanned\/2019\/04\/04\/to-fight-drone-swarms-the-corps-wants-a-battle-drone-that-can-kill-other-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"To fight drone swarms, the Corps wants a battle drone that can kill other drones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past several years, the Corps has been rapidly testing and acquiring systems to take on air threats \u2014 a problem that last existed for the Marines during the Cold War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Systems now in the Corps\u2019 air defense arsenal include the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/02\/11\/why-the-corps-needs-a-system-to-shoot-down-russian-and-chinese-cruise-missiles\/\" target=_blank> Ground\/Air Task-Oriented Radar<\/a>, which can detect cruise missiles, air threats, and a host of other incoming projectiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the Corps is still developing a Joint Light Tactical Vehicle or Humvee mounted air defense system that can use a range of capabilities from stinger missiles, electronic attack or directed energy to blast drones out of the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/03\/25\/marines-will-field-counter-drone-missiles-for-jltv-and-a-single-radar-that-replaces-five-others\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Marine-stinger.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Marines will field counter-drone missiles for JLTV and a single radar that replaces five others<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The air defense equipment is vital to Marine Corps near-peer competition in contested environments.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, during a hearing at the House Armed Service Committee, Marine leaders told lawmakers that they were also looking at drones that can kill other drones to bolster the Corps\u2019 air defense capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lt. 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Rudder, the deputy commandant of the Marine Corps for aviation, told lawmakers that the miniaturization of tech was helping provide capabilities like \u201cprecision-guided munitions that can be launched and hover and loiter at great distances,\u201d to \u201csmall UASs [unmanned aircraft system] that can counter other UASs, that we can certainly launch from a manportable system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether that system will employ kinetic or electronic attack to take down enemy drones was not clear during Thursday\u2019s hearing, but the Corps has been experimenting with a range of loitering drone munitions capable of carrying different payloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The threat of swarming drones has become an ever-growing threat, which Rudder characterized Thursday as a \u201cgreat concern,\u201d especially as even small terror and militia groups have managed to weaponize small commercial drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military has taken serious note of the issue and pumped considerable effort and experimentation into finding unique ways to knock drones out of the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of those systems, like the Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System, which uses a pair of Polaris MRZRs to track and shut down drones with electronic attack, have already deployed with the 22nd and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/01\/31\/the-corps-strapped-a-new-counter-drone-system-to-the-deck-of-a-warship-transiting-the-suez-canal-heres-why\/\" target=\"_blank\"> 13th Marine Expeditionary Units. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Corps also has looked at a slew of shoulder-fired or manportable gun-like systems that can use electronic warfare, and a system that fires a net at incoming drones. These systems were tested just last year at the Corps\u2019 experimental <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/03\/30\/enhancing-the-grunt-sophisticated-new-tech-means-greater-responsibility-heavier-load\/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban ANTX<\/a> exercise aboard Camp Pendleton, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5760\" height=\"3840\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/drone-net.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/drone-net.jpg.jpg 5760w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/drone-net.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/drone-net.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/drone-net.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/drone-net.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/drone-net.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5760px) 100vw, 5760px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A U.S. Marine with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, Kilo Company utilizes a weapon that has the capabilities to shoot down drones with a net during Urban Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2018 (ANTX18) at Camp Pendleton, Calif., March 20, 2018. The Marines are testing next generation technologies to provide the opportunity to assess the operational utility of emerging technologies and engineering innovations that improve the Marine\u2019s survivability, lethality and connectivity in complex urban environments. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Laiqa Hitt)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the Corps appears to be pushing away from some of these manportable systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lt. Gen. 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