The U.S. Air Force has put kinetic counter-drone weapons on display at Tyndall Air Force Base, pairing the Remington M870 shotgun with the SMASH 2000 fire-control system on an M4A1 carbine.
The 325th Security Forces Squadron briefed Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Sherman on a training plan to qualify about 210 Airmen for base-defense use against low-altitude, high-speed aerial targets. The effort is built as a distributed point-defense layer under Title 10 Section 130i, with security forces trained to detect, track, and defeat small drones rather than depend on specialist air-defense units. SMASH 2000 adds electro-optical tracking and ballistic computation to improve first-round hit probability.
The immediate signal is clear: base security is shifting toward organic counter-sUAS capacity.