Companies looking to develop integrated, mobile CUAS systems for frontline troops
AimLock’s RM-1 gun fitted to a Polaris MRZR can be used in a CUAS role. (Photo: AimLock)
Systems to detect and counter uncrewed aerial systems (CUAS), like drones and loitering munitions, are being integrated into tactical and light armoured vehicles to protect frontline units in a race to keep up with threats.
Frontline troops, such as infantry squads, special forces, and reconnaissance units, require CUAS solutions to defeat rapidly increasing and more lethal uncrewed aerial threats. New partnerships between system and platform companies are providing integrated, mobile CUAS solutions for frontline ground assets.
CUAS system builders and platform makers have outlined to Shephard about potential options for threat detection and kinetic or non-kinetic solutions. Particularly, the CUAS system companies highlighted how solutions can be installed aboard light tactical vehicles and light armoured vehicles, like the platforms produced by General Dynamics Land Systems and Polaris.
In June, L3Harris Technologies announced a contract through
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