Lockheed Martin GRIZZLY

Lockheed Martin's GRIZZLY is a containerized missile launcher built to fire Hellfire and JAGM missiles, pitched as a low-cost, mobile point-defense shooter for counter-drone and layered air defense on land or at sea.

Overview

GRIZZLY is a containerized missile launcher developed by Lockheed Martin as a mobile, low-cost shooter for point defense against drones and other short-range threats. It packages a Hellfire- and JAGM-capable launcher inside a standard 10-foot shipping container that holds up to eight missiles and can sit on the ground or on a ship. Lockheed frames GRIZZLY less as a stand-alone weapon than as the effector layer of a wider counter-unmanned-aerial-system (C-UAS) kill chain, tying it to the company's Sanctum battle-management software and to radars from Fortem Technologies, a Utah counter-drone firm Lockheed part-funded in 2026.

The system drew wider attention on June 3, 2026, when Lockheed said it had fired a Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) from the launcher to intercept a Group 3 one-way attack test drone at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona — a target Axios described as Shahed-style. It was the first time the company had knocked down a drone with this combination of container launcher, Sanctum software and Fortem R-40 radars, and Lockheed said the whole chain was integrated and live-fired in under 45 days (Military Times). GRIZZLY is a company-funded prototype and demonstrator, not a fielded program of record, and no operator or production order has been publicly established.

Development

GRIZZLY began as an internally funded Lockheed Martin effort. According to Defense News, the company said its first live-fire tests came "just six months after the program began research and development," through internal Lockheed investment — placing the program's start in roughly late 2025. The launcher incorporates design elements of Lockheed's M299 launcher, the multi-rail box launcher long used to carry Hellfire and JAGM on rotary-wing and other platforms; Defense News noted the M299 can be configured three ways and fires both missiles.

The public milestones have come quickly. In March 2026, Lockheed fired a Hellfire from the container in a vertical-launch test at Yakima Training Center, Washington (Defense News). In April 2026, it invested $25 million in Fortem Technologies to fold that firm's radars and interceptors more tightly into Sanctum (Lockheed Martin). The June 2026 Yuma shot added the JAGM and a full detect-track-engage sequence against a live drone. Lockheed has tied the launcher to U.S. Navy interest in containerized weapons that could ride on unmanned surface vessels, a demand signal the company cited when it first showed GRIZZLY in March (Defense News).

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