U.S. Army Tests Self-Driving Truck with Drone-Killing Turret

Army to take autonomous breaching F-250 to NTC this fall

The Army ran an F-250 truck through semi-autonomous mine-clearing and drone-defense tests during its Project Sandhills 2.0 prototyping series last week ahead of a continued assessment of the vehicle at the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, CA, in October. The Army fitted breaching capabilities onto the back of a Ford F-250 truck integrated with Forterra’s autonomy stack for the exercise, based at Ft. Bragg, NC. The truck included Edda, an a…

U.S. Army tests self-driving truck with drone-killing turret

A Ford F-250 that can drive itself carried a shotgun-armed drone-killing turret onto a live-fire range at Fort Bragg on August 18, 2026, the latest test in a U.S. Army program built to get engineers out of the blast radius during breaching operations. The vehicle, tested at Range 63 as part of Project Sandhills 2.0, […]

US Army Tests Self-Driving Ford F-250 With Drone-Killing Shotgun Turret

Last week, the U.S. Army tested a self-driving Ford F-250 equipped with a shotgun-toting, drone-destroying turret during a live-fire exercise at Fort Bragg, bringing close-range defense to heavy engineering missions. The vehicle is part of Project Sandhills 2.0, an Army program used to develop self-driving platforms that navigate hazardous

Self-driving Ford F-250 truck with shotgun-equipped drone-killing turret tested by US Army — autonomous system designed to blast fast-moving drones at between 10 and 100 meters range

The U.S. Army tested an autonomous breaching vehicle with an onboard counter-UAS (C-UAS) turret during a live-fire exercise at Fort Bragg on August 18. As part of Project Sandhills 2.0, self-driving Ford F-250 trucks were put through their paces, some armed with computer-controlled drone-killing shotgun turrets. Sandhills 2.0 builds on the original Sandhills project which spawned the Lancer UGV, built on the Polaris Ranger 1500 utility vehicle, …