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Marine Corps May Use Shore-Based Naval Strike Missile

Thursday, January 16th, 2020

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Marine Corps May Use Shore-Based Naval Strike Missile

The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) launches a Naval Strike Missile (NSM) during the biennial Pacific Griffin exercise as part of a sinking exercise on Oct. 1, 2019. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy’s top acquisition official this week said the Navy and Marine Corps are seriously considering using the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) as a Marine Corps shore-based anti-ship battery. “Just yesterday we had the team in that does the Naval Strike Missile on LCS (Littoral Combat Ship) working directly hand-in-hand with the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps does ground launchers, we do command and control on the Navy – make that immediately available to the Marine Corps, Marine Corps has…

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