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Title: Marines Want to Equip Armored Recon Units with Long-Range Fires
Post by: rangerrebew on March 08, 2019, 11:19:17 am

Marines Want to Equip Armored Recon Units with Long-Range Fires
 
6 Mar 2019
Military.com | By Matthew Cox

U.S. Marine Corps officials will sit down soon with defense companies to discuss how to equip light armored reconnaissance (LAR) battalions with futuristic long-range precision fires.

Marine Corps Systems Command recently released a request for information on innovative ideas for equipping LAR battalions with a mounted indirect-fires capability, beginning in fiscal 2022, that could hit targets at ranges out to 100 kilometers, said Jeff Nebel, fire support coordination team lead for Program Manager Fires.


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