Marathon Target News Today

An Australian company that builds life-size moving targets for military weapons training opened a new factory in Huntsville today to build more robots and compete for an even larger role in training American warfighters.

The US military has traditionally used stationary targets at firing ranges to prepare for war, but a new innovation is transforming the lifeless structures into a more realistic enemy. Camp Lejuene, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina, has adopted the range of the future known as G-366, which unleashes autonomous robots in the field that fall over when shot, charge at shooters and curse at them in 57 different dialects. Designed by Marathon Targets, the robots run on a rigged four-wheeled cha...