[William of Barsoom]

I seem to recall from some years ago a system under development being reported in “Aviation Week & Space Technology” magazine — back when regular people could still read it — that would detect incoming theatre rounds — either artillery or rocket, quickly dispatch an out-going pin-point guided response round which would land on the original shooter’ positions BEFORE thier round even hit it’s target.

Kinda a “Quick-draw McGraw” deal. Then, I never heard any more about it. (I’m guessing it worked, and went black.)

[null and void]

I’m guessing that’s a pretty good guess...

[Steely Tom]

I seem to recall from some years ago a system under development being reported in “Aviation Week & Space Technology” magazine — back when regular people could still read it — that would detect incoming theatre rounds — either artillery or rocket, quickly dispatch an out-going pin-point guided response round which would land on the original shooter’ positions BEFORE their round even hit it’s target.

That was invented during WWII. It was called "counter-battery radar."

Early versions didn't work that well, but they were steadily improved.

The AN/MPQ-4 was a counter-battery radar that worked pretty well. It was used in Vietnam.

[marktwain]

We have had smart mortars for many years.

The innovation here is likely the payload, which sends back images as well as delivering destruction.

[Spktyr]

That’s one of the many counter-battery systems out there now.

[Damifino]

I seem to recall from some years ago a system under development being reported in “Aviation Week & Space Technology” magazine — back when regular people could still read it — that would detect incoming theatre rounds — either artillery or rocket, quickly dispatch an out-going pin-point guided response round which would land on the original shooter’ positions BEFORE thier round even hit it’s target.

I worked on this system some years ago. Is/was called active protection sytem. The Isreali's have one that at the time was better than ours called TROPHY. Have no idea if these programs were ever fielded in a meaningful way. It did work fairly well in field testing.