US goes back to the future with Precision Grenadier System
Less than four years after the US Army cancelled the contract for the Northrop Grumman XM25 Counter-Defilade Target Engagement weapon system, the service is exploring the development and acquisition of an enhanced but potentially similar concept called the Precision Grenadier System.
A rough outline of the new system was provided by US Army representatives on 5 November at the 2020 Joint Armaments, Robotics and Munitions Digital Experience, sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association.
‘One of our challenges continues to be counter-defilade, because what happens when you start a firefight is that everybody goes down – everybody goes to ground’,
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