AUSA 2023: Smart Shooter supplying more SMASH 2000L rifle-mounted C-sUAS systems

SmartShooter is supplying its lightest weapon-mounted fire control system, the SMASH 2000L, to the US for C-sUAS defence. (SmartShooter)

Smart Shooter’s US subsidiary on 3 October was contracted to supply more of its SMASH 2000L weapon-mounted fire control systems to the US Army for counter-small unmanned aerial system (C-sUAS) defence, the company told Janes .

SMASH optics uses image processing to automatically acquire a target from a weapon sight’s field-of-view (FOV) and then displays a box around the target in the shooter’s reflex sight. A switch on the weapon’s forestock enables the shooter to select and lock on to a target. SMASH will then fire only when the sight is aligned to hit the target – this includes ‘leading’ a moving target.

The company’s US sales of its SMASH 2000L are “in the hundreds”, Scott Thompson, Smart Shooter’s vice-president and general manager for the US, told Janes on 9 October at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) 2023 symposium in Washington, DC.