Unmanned systems to take lead role in defending Marines on invasion beaches from enemy surface warships

Published on December 2, 2022

Autonomous technologies and unmanned systems are set to play a leading role in how U.S. Marines operating on invasion beaches defend themselves from enemy warships that seek to thwart Marine Corps footholds in captured territory.

It comes down to the role of armed unmanned vehicles in the future Navy/Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS), which aims to use shore-based long-range anti-ship missiles and unmanned vehicles to defend Marines from attacks by enemy surface warships.

The anti-ship weapons will be the Raytheon Naval Strike Missile (NSM), which has an imaging infrared seeker, an onboard target database, and navigates by Global Positioning System (GPS), inertial sensors, and terrain-reference systems.

 

https://www.militaryaerospace.com/blogs/article/14286321/unmanned-launchers-antiship-missiles

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