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US Marines Successfully Fire New NMESIS Anti-ship System

Our Bureau - : Aug 19, 2021 - : 12:28 pm

The U.S. Marine Corps have fired its new Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, hitting a target off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, during the recent Large Scale Exercise 2021.

The anti-ship ground-based missile system has been developed to provide the Marine Littoral Regiment with capability to combat enemy ships at sea. NMESIS has been developed with the chassis of the Joint Lightweight Tactical Vehicle and the fire control system of the Naval Strike Missile.

“This week was very successful,” Joe McPherson, long range fires program manger at Marine Corps Systems Command said in a statement on Tuesday. “In addition to the two live fire shots that hit the target, we also successfully deployed the system aboard the Marine Corps’ primary transport systems, the C130 and LCAC.”

During the exercise, NMESIS, which was developed in about two years, successfully hit a decommissioned ship during the SINKEX exercise scenario, which tested multiple weapons systems and platforms of different U.S. services. MCSC managed the fire control during the exercise while Marines practiced maneuvering the system.

“This exercise gave us an opportunity to not only measure, but also validate the concepts for [the Marine Corps’] anti-ship capability, which is one of the most important avenues of the commandant’s Force Design 2030,” said Lt. Col. Ryan Collins, combat integration officer for artillery and fires at the Marine Corps Combat Development Directorate, Combat Development and Integration.

According to reports, the Marines will buy the first production units of the NMESIS this year for operational test and evaluation that will happen in 2022. The system is likely to be operational by the end of 2023.

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