The USMC has gotten a lot of work out of their MV-22 Osprey fleet since its entry to service over a decade ago. A new drone, under development with the… Continue reading "Marine Corps Developing Advanced Air Launched Drone"
The Marine Corps has elected to purchase the Raytheon/Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile as an element to their future plans for island hopping in the Western Pacific. A contract, worth $47… Continue reading "USMC to Buy Naval Strike Missile in $47 million Dollar Deal"
The F-35B has recently returned from its first combat deployment on the USS Essex, LHD-2, as part of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The eight-month deployment, which departed the US… Continue reading "F-35Bs Bolster USS Essex Amphibious Ready Group Capabilities"
The Marine Corps is planning to buy more F-35Cs in order to bolster air-wings on Navy deployments. The latest USMC budget request, for FY 2020, has the service buying ten… Continue reading "USMC Increases F-35C Buy, Slows Purchases of F-35B"
As the CH-53K King Stallion sees continued delays in development, the Marine Corps’ heavy lift mainstay is seeing readiness rates at their highest in decades. The Marines’ 142 CH-53E Sea… Continue reading "USMC CH-53E Fleet Sees Readiness Rate Increase"
British OpenWorks Engineering has published a news article reporting that their SkyWall100 drone capture system has been demonstrated to the Commandant of the US Marine Corps at the Marine Corps Base… Continue reading "SkyWall100 Anti-Drone System Was Demonstrated to US Marine Corps"
The US Marine Corps has awarded a nearly $60 million contract to Rheinmetall for MK281 MOD3 40mm day/night practice ammunition for the Mk19 grenade machine gun. The German company’s US arm,… Continue reading "INCOMING: USMC Awards Rheinmetall Contract for 40mm Practice Grenades"
US Navy has published a solicitation for development of “Small Arms Long-Range Human Electro-Muscular Incapacitation (HEMI) Munition”. The solicitation was published on the website of a US government program called SBIR (Small… Continue reading "USMC Wants Less-Lethal Long Range Electro-Muscular Incapacitation Munitions"
Back in May, we reported that the US Marine Corps would, at last, be replacing its venerable M40A6 sniper rifles with the Mk 13 Precision Sniper Rifle. The Marine Corps has now… Continue reading "Marine Corps Adopts Nightforce ATACR for Mk 13 Sniper Rifle"