Marine Corps Wants Loitering Munitions for its Infantry Units
Commandant highlighted the weapons’ unpredictability and psychological effects on the enemy at Marine expo.
CAITLIN M. KENNEY | MAY 11, 2022
The U.S. Marine Corps wants loitering munitions for the flexible targeting and unnerving effect they’ve shown in Ukraine, the commandant said Tuesday.
The newly-released update to Force Design 2030 calls for fielding such weapons with small units to “provide the close-combat lethality enhancements long-envisioned by infantry Marines.”
The Marine Corps’ Infantry Battalion Experiment is also demonstrating their relevance. At the 2022 Modern Day Marine exposition in Washington, D.C., Gen. David Berger told an audience that the service has conducted nine force-on-force exercises at Twentynine Palms in California over the past year and a half as part of the service’s efforts to explore new concepts, and so far has validated what the service witnessed in other wargames and experiments going back to the 1990s.
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