AUSA 10: Lockheed Martin offers up 40mm 'tag and track' capability
Lockheed Martin has developed a covert tagging and tracking system, initiated by 40mm grenade, designed to covertly 'paint' high value targets and suspected enemy combatants with a laser-detectable tracking agent, Land Warfare International has learnt.
In response to a Broad Agency Announcement from the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) for such a capability, Lockheed Martin told LWI that it was on track to conduct a series of test firings in Florida next week.
Dubbed 'SkyFire', Lockheed Martin's solution launches a covert agent from an exploding 40mm grenade which marks up personnel in an undisclosed radius with 'colourless, odourless and tasteless'
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