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Marine Corps Buys 1,993 UAS To Fill Urgent Warfighter Need

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By Geoff Fein In the past 60 days, the Marine Corps has bought almost 2,000 unmanned air vehicles (UAV) from the Army and Air Force, in response to a warfighters' urgent needs requests, a Navy official said. In order to quickly get systems to Marines in theater, the Navy and Marine Corps leveraged preexisting systems, Capt. J.R. Brown, program manager, small tactical unmanned aerial systems (STUAS), told Defense Daily Thursday. "We have close relationships with both the Army and Air…

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