By: Todd South
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As the Marine Corps enters its 3rd as well as in conclusion twelvemonth of the reconstituted Sea Dragon experiments, past, nowadays as well as hereafter efforts are all aimed at how the Marines tin throw to a greater extent than weight into the naval warfighting punch. Brig. Gen. Christian F. Wortman, commanding full general of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, outlined the past times year’s run focusing on logistics modernization as well as previewed adjacent year’s focus: the data environment.
The infantry battalion was a previous focus, as well as experiments led to the adoption of novel gear as well as the downsizing as well as reconfiguring of the rifle squad.
The Corps has successfully tested a unmarried operator controlling vi drones at once.
What volition the Corps' focus on the data surroundings bring?
Four major areas are on deck for Marines to contribute to the larger fight, Wortman said.
Those include the powerfulness to deploy as well as work sensors from a distributed posture, employing fires based on sensor-fed information, back upwards command as well as command inwards a contested surroundings as well as challenge the enemy’s powerfulness to target or runway U.S. of A. forces.
One slice of hardware that volition contribute to a cardinal remove ― ocean command ― is an anti-ship, coastal defence missile.
Wortman declined to hash out either timelines or types of missiles that mightiness fill upwards that role, but he did tell that the weapon would endure “prominent” inwards upcoming exercises.
That weapon is a priority of transcend Marine leadership, he said.
Some of those same concerns are component subdivision of the past times year’s logistics experimentation, which equally included manned-unmanned robotics teaming amongst air, ground, surface as well as underwater devices.
The underwater options are of detail involvement inwards logistics for consumable items, such equally fuel.
Those same devices are helping Marines honour novel ways to employ fires, Wortman said.
Earlier this twelvemonth at a like media event, Capt. Matt Cornachio, a fires projection officeholder amongst MCWL, told reporters that Marines were aiming to pick out equally many equally xv suicide drones inwards a swarm controlled past times a unmarried Marine. That’s component subdivision of the endeavor to pick out “loitering munitions” work, which goes beyond traditional kinetic fires.
At the time, experiments had reached equally many equally vi drones nether 1 Marine’s command at a time.
Beyond criterion munitions payloads, the experiments too worked amongst surveillance as well as reconnaissance, signals intelligence as well as command as well as command payloads, Wortman said.
“With those manned-unmanned teaming events, we’re recognizing a lot of options for actually sophisticated combined arms integration,” Wortman said. “We’re actually simply starting to tap the total potential on these systems.”
Over the past times viii months, the Corps has held 4 major grooming events to assist construct recommendations for modernization.
They conducted a 5th generation Advanced Naval Training Exercise at Camp Pendleton, California, a fires assessment inwards May, the manned-unmanned teaming evaluation inwards belatedly Oct through early on Nov as well as the Squad X, a projection that both the Army as well as Marines participated inwards that was held past times the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Next summer, they’ll concord around other ANTEX focused on urban warfare, Wortman said.
Alongside the technology evaluations, MCWL has too been involved inwards large-scale wargaming as well as is edifice a cadre of viii to 10 individuals equally a permanent experimental opposition force. This grouping of civilians volition come upwards pick out expertise for all domains as well as challenge amphibious as well as expeditionary capabilities, Wortman said.
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