Gunfire detection devices heading to the fleet
The Marine Corps is ordering several hundred gunfire detection devices for use in Afghanistan, at pre-deployment training sites and at bases throughout the Corps.
Called the Shoulder-Worn Acoustic Targeting System, or SWATS, the Corps already has sent more than 150 of the devices to Afghanistan in an effort to help Marines zero in on the origin of sniper fire.
The first set of SWATS arrived in Afghanistan in late spring and early summer and quickly proved successful in combat, according to a branch head at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Va.