The US Marine Corps has conducted an expedited fielding and training approach for its Organic-Counter Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (O-CsUAS) dismounted equipment across the Fleet Marine Force.
The O-CsUAS delivers man-portable systems that provide Marines with the ability to detect, track, identify and defeat group 1-2 sUAS using kinetic and non-kinetic effects. This is a short-range self-defense capability for small units and the effectors can be integrated with the M4 rifle.
“To do the fielding and the training simultaneously is pushing towards a new era for the Marine Corps,” said Lance Cpl. Bryen Martinez with Marine Corps Base Quantico Security Battalion. “We have entered a more advanced, modern-day war. This equipment, and the ability to continuously learn on it, will help Marines employ the system’s lethality, giving us a higher survivability rate.”
Over the coming months, the Marine Corps will have an equipped and fully prepared cadre of operators for O-CsUAS.
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Image: US Marines from Marine Corps Base Quantico’s Provost Marshall Office employ weapons system during a New Equipment Training (NET) exercise to demonstrate the Organic – Counter Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (O-CsUAS) capabilities PEO Land Systems is deploying directly to the fleet during a live training event on Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA. (US Marine Corps Photo by Addi Vander Velde)
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