BAE Systems given contract to modify Mk 38 Mod 2 with C-UAS capability

The U.S. Navy has given BAE Systems a sole source contract to add a counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS) capability to the Mk 38 Mod 2 Machine Gun System (MGS).

USS Howard fires its Mk. 38 Mod. 2 machine gun during a live-fire exercise. (36009631892)
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EA-18G Block II might be equipped with UAV

During a media tour of Northrop Grumman’s mission systems facility outside Baltimore, Maryland, reporters were shown an unmanned aerial vehicle that folds inside a canister and designed to be carried on the EA-18G

US Navy 090217-N-3610L-243 An EA-18G Growler assigned to the
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