The Marine Corps will deploy two of its newest missile systems — NMESIS and MADIS — to Japan’s westernmost island for the first time this month during the large-scale Keen Sword exercise with Japanese forces.


The Marine Corps will deploy two of its newest missile systems — NMESIS and MADIS — to Japan’s westernmost island for the first time this month during the large-scale Keen Sword exercise with Japanese forces.

The request said the government is researching potential industry sources for weapon systems that can fire low-cost munitions against air and missile threats.

The annual Saber Junction exercise in Germany is testing how U.S. and allied forces adapt to an increasingly drone-saturated battlefield modeled on Russian tactics.

The U.S. military must expand its approach to autonomous systems by creating affordable, distributed networks that help allies confront adversaries’ coercive “gray-zone” actions, the commander of Special Operations Command Pacific said Thursday.
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