Corps to fire ship-sinking missile in Pacific as ‘demonstration of force’
By Philip Athey
Aug 13, 05:37 PM
Marines in early 2021 combined an unmanned Joint Light Tactical Vehicle with the Naval Strike Missile, successfully hitting a target at sea from land. (Navy)
The Marine Corps will launch a Naval Strike Missile at a scrapped U.S. Navy hull Sunday as a demonstration of the force that future Marine artillery units may be able to bring to the fight.
The launch in the Pacific is part of Large Scale Exercise 2021, Brig. Gen. John F. Kelliher, the deputy joint force maritime component commander, told Marine Corps Times in a Friday phone interview.
“It will be a demonstration of force and it will be kinetic, from multiple platforms,” Kelliher said.
“The Marine Corps will fire one of these Naval Strike Missiles in the Pacific there will be a sacrificial hull out there, something the Navy has scrapped,” he added.
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