SMASH 2000

An AI-enabled, rifle-mounted fire-control sight that lets a single soldier reliably hit and destroy small drones with standard service-rifle ammunition — turning every rifleman into an organic counter-UAS asset.

Overview

The SMASH family — the original SMASH 2000, the lighter SMASH 2000L, and the current SMASH 2000LE/3000SA — is a Picatinny-rail-mounted electro-optical fire-control system developed by Israel’s SmartShooter. Its onboard AI processor acquires moving targets, tracks them, and releases the shot only when the weapon is aligned for a high-probability hit. Originally conceived to boost first-round hit probability against evasive ground targets, the system’s most urgent battlefield role has become counter-small UAS (C-sUAS): it provides squads with a kinetic option against quadcopter and fixed-wing drones that are too fast and agile for conventional marksmanship.

Development

SmartShooter, founded in Yokneam, Israel around 2016, exhibited the first SMASH 2000 in 2018–2019. The breakout moment came in late 2022, when the US Army’s rapid-acquisition office issued a contract for the SMASH 2000L after seeing the small-drone threat validated in Ukraine, as reported by National Defense Magazine. That order launched a cascade of US branch adoptions: Marine Corps procurement began in mid-2025, the Air Force’s counter-UAS task force JIATF-401 followed in early 2026, and the Navy added its first significant buy in June 2026. A British Army selection was announced at DSEI 2023, and a German follow-on order was confirmed in early 2025.

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