This new Marine Corps live-fire range has it all: robot enemies, rockets, mortars, breaching
Todd South
Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, now have a range that can withstand all infantry weapons, including mortars, heavy machine guns and rockets, where they can fly drones and conduct breaches that they can assault from sea, air or land, and fight robot adversaries to make a company assault as real as possible.
And it’s likely to become the standard by which deploying infantry units are measured before they depart the East Coast on future missions.
In July 2019, Maj. Gen. Julian “Dale†Alford, base commanding general, told his base operations commander, Col. Gary McCullar, that he wanted to transform the dated, limited range that held pop-up targets and didn’t allow for supporting fire weapons into something that would give Marines the feel of fighting a peer competitor.
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2020/12/18/this-new-marine-corps-live-fire-range-has-it-all-robot-enemies-rockets-mortars-breaching/
