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Marine Corps On Track To Field Medium-Range Intercept Capability In 2025

Marine Corps On Track To Field Medium-Range Intercept Capability In 2025
The Medium-Range Intercept Capability is set up during a static display at General Raymond G. Davis Center aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico, January 12, 2024. Photo: Photo by Lance Cpl. Michael Bartman, Marine Corps Combat Development and Integration

The Marine Corps is on track to begin fielding its new Medium Range Intercept Capability (MRIC) in 2025, a lead official has confirmed. Col. Andrew Konicki, the Marine Corps’ program manager for ground-based air defense, said Wednesday a Quick Reaction Assessment with MRIC, which incorporates components of Israel’s Iron Dome system, is still slated for September and is a key next step to moving into a program of record and fielding. “That’s in lieu of a traditional [initial operational test…

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