Marines to field light loitering munition to operational units in ‘June timeframe’: Official
Currently OFP-L systems from three manufacturers are being tested by units at Dugway Proving Grounds outside of Salt Lake City.
By Carley Welch on April 29, 2026 2:43 pm
WASHINGTON — The Marines plan to officially start fielding their new launched effects capabilities, dubbed Organic Precision Fires- Light (OPF-L), to operational units in the “June timeframe,” one senior official said today.
Currently, systems from three manufacturers are being tested by units at Dugway Proving Grounds outside of Salt Lake City. But beginning in June, operational units will begin to receive them, Col. Bradley Sams, program manager of Ground Weapons Systems for the Marine Corps said today.
“The ones that we have given to those units have been inerts [referring to systems without live warheads] to get after training and TTPs [tactics, techniques and procedures] so they can figure out how they again, how we incorporate into the scheme, their schemes,” Sams said. “The fielding decision is planned for the June timeframe, and that will be the first time we’ll get actual inerts and live warheads to the units that are on the fielding plan.”
Sams declined to divulge what units would be receiving the systems.
https://breakingdefense.com/2026/04/marines-to-field-light-loitering-munition-to-operational-units-in-june-timeframe-official/
