Posted on Aug 18, 2021
Marines Successfully Fire New NMESIS Anti-Ship Weapon During Live Exercise - Breaking Defense
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The Marine Corps this week announced it successfully tested its new anti-ship missile system during the Navy’s Large Scale Exercise 2021, successfully hitting a decommissioned vessel off the coast of Kauai in Hawaii.
The Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, more cleverly known as NMESIS, is a ground-based, anti-ship capability that was developed quickly over the past two years by combining elements of other programs of record, such as the chassis of the Joint Lightweight Tactical Vehicle and the fire control system from the Naval Strike Missile. In essence, it’ll be a remotely operated ground vehicle capable of engaging enemy ships at sea from the coast.
Large Scale Exercise 2021 is the Navy’s wide-ranging operational exercise being conducting this summer to test out its newest operational concepts, including the Marine Corps’ expeditionary advanced base operations concept.
In Hawaii, the service twice fired and successfully hit a decommissioned ship with NMESIS, as well as practiced loading and unloading the system aboard C-130 aircraft and Landing Craft Air Cushions, Joe McPherson, program manager for long range fires at Marine Corps Systems Command, told reporters during a Tuesday roundtable. The events were executed by Marines from Marine Corps Forces Pacific.
The Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, more cleverly known as NMESIS, is a ground-based, anti-ship capability that was developed quickly over the past two years by combining elements of other programs of record, such as the chassis of the Joint Lightweight Tactical Vehicle and the fire control system from the Naval Strike Missile. In essence, it’ll be a remotely operated ground vehicle capable of engaging enemy ships at sea from the coast.
Large Scale Exercise 2021 is the Navy’s wide-ranging operational exercise being conducting this summer to test out its newest operational concepts, including the Marine Corps’ expeditionary advanced base operations concept.
In Hawaii, the service twice fired and successfully hit a decommissioned ship with NMESIS, as well as practiced loading and unloading the system aboard C-130 aircraft and Landing Craft Air Cushions, Joe McPherson, program manager for long range fires at Marine Corps Systems Command, told reporters during a Tuesday roundtable. The events were executed by Marines from Marine Corps Forces Pacific.
Marines Successfully Fire New NMESIS Anti-Ship Weapon During Live Exercise - Breaking Defense
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So it hit an unmanned stationary … undefended target ship. Good job but I thought we could already do that… how about a threat ship moving at 30 knots with full ship defense systems in operation… please let us know how that goes…
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CWO4 Terrence Clark
Good point. Needed weapon, but no mention of fast ships, evasive turns, motion compensating weapons systems, flares, superRBOC, CIWS, etc.
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GySgt Thomas Vick
Agreed LTC King, it was a stationary target, now on to the moving target, and then work on the stealth capability.
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LTC Marc King
GySgt Thomas Vick - I know Gunny --- just a little bit of trash talk from the Army --- :-)
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Good! This way the Marines have the capability to fire back at ships when the Navy retires, for whatever reason. Think 1942 and Guadalcanal when the Navy feared for its life and stranded the Marines with hardly any supplies.
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