{"id":32031,"date":"2025-04-22T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/04\/22\/marines-deploy-drone-killing-madis-system-for-balikatan-drills\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:38:07","slug":"marines-deploy-drone-killing-madis-system-for-balikatan-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2025\/04\/22\/marines-deploy-drone-killing-madis-system-for-balikatan-drills\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines deploy drone-killing MADIS system for Balikatan drills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Marines will test one of the service\u2019s newest counter-drone defense systems during this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/04\/21\/us-philippines-to-simulate-full-scale-battle-in-balikatan-drills\/\">Balikatan military exercise<\/a> in collaboration with the Philippine military, according to the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marines with the 3rd Littoral Anti-Air Battalion\u2019s Ground-Based Air Defense Battery will conduct live-fire training with the ground-based Marine Air Defense Integrated System, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2024\/12\/17\/this-marine-unit-now-has-its-own-tool-to-blast-drones-out-of-the-sky\/\">MADIS<\/a>, a short-range, surface-to-air system that specializes in the detection and destruction of unmanned aircraft systems, at the annual joint drills currently underway in the Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exercise will<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2025\/03\/27\/marine-corps-eyes-future-stability-of-indo-pacific-with-balikatan-2025\/\"> mark<\/a> MADIS\u2019 second live-fire training, following training in January at the Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island of Hawaii, and the first time the system has been deployed outside the United States with a U.S. Marine Corps unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe MADIS is a unique weapon system that enhances both the survivability and lethality of [the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment] by extending the reach of the airspace over which the formation has control, and by giving tactical flexibility to the friendly elements operating within our area of operations,\u201d said Col. 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Lehane, commanding officer of the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/495705\/enhanced-defense-3d-mlr-deploys-madis-philippines-balikatan-2025\" target=\"_blank\">release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During an integrated air and missile defense event, U.S. Marines will perform a demonstration of the MADIS alongside Philippine Marines and soldiers, who will also utilize their own counter-drone systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With MADIS, Marines don\u2019t have to exit their vehicle to manually target and take out an unmanned aerial vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The system, mounted to a tactical vehicle, comes equipped with radar and weapons capable of identifying aerial threats and neutralizing them out of the sky with jammers, Stinger missiles and a 30mm cannon.<\/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\/2024\/12\/17\/this-marine-unit-now-has-its-own-tool-to-blast-drones-out-of-the-sky\/\" 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\/MADIS-test.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\">This Marine unit now has its own tool to blast drones out of the sky<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The system replaces a cumbersome legacy platform Marines have long used to defend the skies: The Man-Portable Air Defense System, or MANPADs.<\/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\">MADIS will replace a previous aerial defense system called the Man-Portable Air Defense System, or MANPADs, which includes a fire unit vehicle, section leader vehicle and a Stinger shoulder-fired missile as its primary weapon system, according to the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marine Corps \u2014 which requested $130 million for 13 MADIS Increment 1 systems in its fiscal 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2023\/06\/12\/marines-want-200m-for-powerful-drone-killing-machines\/\">budget request<\/a> \u2014 will seek to field 190 MADIS systems through 2035 to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2023\/09\/01\/marines-pacific-air-defense-unit-is-back-with-drone-killing-abilities\/\">Low-Altitude Air Defense Battalions<\/a> and the 3rd, 4th and 12th Marine Littoral Regiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year\u2019s Balikatan, running through May 9 on the Philippine islands of Luzon and Palawan, marks 40 years of joint drills aimed at fortifying the Indo-Pacific. 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