The US subsidiary of Israeli firm Smartshooter has received a new order from the US Marine Corps (USMC) for its Smash 2000L fire control systems, the company announced on 14 July 2025.
The USMC is procuring the Smash 2000L as an interim capability to address its urgent requirement for dismounted counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) solutions. The USMC gained hands-on experience with the system through earlier testing, with this latest order representing the next step towards full adoption across the entire Marine Corps.
The Smash 2000L, which is Smartshooter’s lightest handheld-operated fire control system, leverages artificial intelligence, computer vision and advanced tracking algorithms to enable dismounted forces to detect, track and precisely eliminate aerial and ground threats. Especially effective against drones and sUAS, the Smash 2000L “provides a reliable and combat-proven hard-kill solution to an evolving and urgent battlefield threat”, Smartshooter stated in a press release.
Initially tested and selected by the US Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office and the Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate (IWTSD) as the kinetic solution for squad-level counter-drone missions, the Smash system continues to gain traction across multiple armed forces. It has already been fielded by US special forces, the USMC and the armed forces of several NATO countries.
“With Smash 2000L, dismounted marines are equipped with an effective, combat-proven solution against the growing threat of drones on the battlefield,” Smartshooter CEO Michal Mor was quoted as saying in a company press release. “This new order is an important step toward potential adoption of the Smash fire control systems at the squad level, and we remain committed to supporting the Marine Corps with cutting-edge, operationally proven kinetic capabilities.”
