New Multi-Year War Experiment Will Prepare Marines to Fight in Crowded Cities

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New Multi-Year War Experiment Will Prepare Marines to Fight in Crowded Cities

17 Apr 2019
Military.com | By Matthew Cox

The Marine Corps plans to launch an urban-combat operations experiment this summer, and the service wants defense firms and academia to submit ideas for weapons and fighting technologies aimed at making Marine infantry units more effective in this deadly environment.

The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory recently released a request for information to search for emerging and mature technologies to be included in a new "limited objective experiment" focused on dense urban operations, according to an April 15 solicitation posted on the government contracting website FedBizOpps.

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