The Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office has completed its third demonstration to look at capability that could fill identified gaps to defeat the growing drone threat around the world.
Questions remain as to how the Marines are going to fill the fleet gap between the aging AAV and the new ACV, which will not be fully deployed for at least six years.
There's a shifting strategy in the Pentagon to forgo legacy system upgrades in favor of new modern platforms, and the Marine Corps' Amphibious Assault Vehicle survivability upgrade is an early victim.
The Marine Corps wrapped up operational tests of Amphibious Combat Vehicle prototypes last week in California and heads into a decision on whether BAE Systems or SAIC will build the service's new ACV expected in mid-June.
