Marine Corps Pairs Autonomous M240 Turret w/ Expeditionary Air Defense

The calculus driving modern air defense has inverted in the last three years. Adversaries discovered that cheap drones can force defenders to spend six-figure interceptor missiles, and the math stopped working. The Marine Corps' answer is layered: keep electronic warfare as the first filter, then add a kinetic option that costs ten dollars per engagement instead of ten thousand.

Allen Control Systems' Bullfrog autonomous weapon station is that kinetic layer, and it just landed a $6.2 million prototype contract to prove itself on the Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System.