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Army

Northrop Grumman Says More Than 50 Drones Downed in Arizona in May Demonstration

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, October 7th, 2025

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Northrop Grumman Says More Than 50 Drones Downed in Arizona in May Demonstration

Pictured is a Northrop Grumman photo of the company's mounted Bushmaster chain gun.

The U.S. Army's Transformation in Contact (TiC) initiative aims to field command and control (C2) applications on tablets, versus the prior way of fielding C2 systems with large "footprints." If the service includes counter-drone kill systems in future TiC demonstrations, Northrop Grumman [NOC] believes it is ready. The Army uses the XM914 variant of Northrop Grumman’s single-feed M230LF 30mm chain gun on the Stryker-mounted Maneuver Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) platform and the Mobile Low, Slow Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle…

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