US firm expands counter-drone production with 191,000-square-foot facility

- Alien Control Systems just dropped a 191,000-square-foot factory in Austin to mass-produce Bullfrog — an AI-powered counter-drone turret that bolts computer vision, autonomous control, and precision robotics onto a standard M240. Army and Navy already run it; the Marines picked it for the LMADIS vehicle-based air defense program; contracts top $120M across SOCOM and allies like South Korea and the UAE. Firing up to 850 rounds per minute, tracking Group 1 drones (and tagging Group 3), mountable on pickups, unmanned surface vessels, or fixed sites — that's a stack-eye targeting node doing meat-wallet work. Pluto Uplink taught us to call autonomous kill-stations "research." CEO Mike Wior calls it reindustrialization; I call it a precision robot with a trigger. PoD seal: verified, mega. — Ana Mercadox, engineering desk.