DefenceTalkThe Marine Corps Systems Command Combat Support Systems (MCSC CSS) and Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) M9 Armored Combat Earthmover (ACE) engineers delivered four modernized M9 ACE production units to the U.S. Marine Corps, Feb. 28. According to NSWC PCD M9 ACE Project Engineer Jeff Dinges, the first modernized units were […]https://www.defencetalk.com/navy-fields-modernized-m9-ace-to-marines-59002/

DefenceTalkOshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation, has delivered three Oshkosh P-19 Replacement Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) vehicle prototypes to the U.S. Marine Corps to undergo testing. The Marine Corps selected the Oshkosh P-19R in May 2013 to serve as the Marines’ off-road firefighting vehicle of the future. Oshkosh will display the P-19R […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-marines-begins-testing-oshkosh-defense-p-19r-50210/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company successfully completed an initial round of live-fire testing with a new U.S. Marine Corps Light Armored Vehicle Anti-Tank (LAV-AT) weapon system. The upgraded, highly mobile, anti-armor LAV-AT weapon system is designed to protect reconnaissance and light infantry. Its mission is to defeat threats at long-range, day or night, and in all weather conditions. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-test-fires-enhanced-anti-tank-weapon-system-49475/

DefenceTalkRaytheon Company successfully completed its first two Guide to Hit (GTH) test series of the Precision Extended Range Munition (PERM) program for the United States Marine Corps. This GTH tested the structural integrity and the kinematic capability of the round when fired from a smooth bore mortar tube. The tests confirmed that after launch, the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheons-precision-extended-range-munition-completes-first-guide-to-hit-test-series-49230/

DefenceTalkJapan’s defence ministry is looking for its biggest budget hike in two decades, partly to create a Marines-like force, it revealed Friday, as neighbors fret about Tokyo’s rising assertiveness. Military bosses want more than 4.8 trillion yen ($49 billion) — three percent up on last year — with much of their focus on safeguarding remote […]https://www.defencetalk.com/japan-eyes-defence-budget-increase-marines-like-unit-48941/

DefenceTalkAll 66 Joint Light Tactical Vehicle prototypes have been delivered to the military so that 14 months of testing can begin at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., and Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. Full-scale testing is scheduled to begin next week, according to the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle joint program office. Each of the three vendors competing […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-marine-corps-take-delivery-of-jltvs-for-user-testing-48903/

DefenceTalkLockheed Martin celebrated the delivery of 22 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps under the JLTV program’s Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract. JLTV team members marked the milestone during a ceremony at the Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control facility in Dallas. The vehicles will be transferred to the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/lockheed-delivers-22-jltv-development-vehicles-to-u-s-army-and-marines-48783/

DefenceTalkGeneral Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) today announced its successful demonstration of Predator B’s Electronic Attack capability at the U.S. Marine Corp’s (USMC’s) Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course held at Marine Corp Air Station (MCAS) Yuma on April 12. “With this highly effective display of Predator B as a viable and capable EW platform, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/ga-asi-successfully-demonstrates-electronic-attack-in-usmc-exercise-48748/

DefenceTalkTARANTO-GROTTAGLIE AIR BASE, Italy: Members of Special Purpose-Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response, or SP-MAGTF Crisis Response, visited Taranto-Grottaglie Air Base, Italy, June 28, to familiarize Italian naval aviation leaders with the MV-22 Osprey and to also celebrate the 100th anniversary of Italian naval aviation. SP-MAGTF Crisis Response is a rotational force of approximately 500 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/crisis-response-marines-familiarize-italian-naval-aviation-with-osprey-48312/

DefenceTalkThe Department of the Navy announced May 15 that the RQ-21A Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) received Milestone C approval authorizing the start of low rate initial production. With MS C approval, the RQ-21A program, managed by the Navy and Marine Corps STUAS program office (PMA-263) here at NAS Patuxent River, enters the production […]https://www.defencetalk.com/navy-and-marine-corps-small-tactical-uas-enters-production-phase-47865/