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Marine Corps to Prioritize MUX Requirements

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, May 8th, 2019

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Marine Corps to Prioritize MUX Requirements

A Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout in Afghanistan in 2011 (U.S. Navy Photo)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The U.S. Marine Corps wants an initial operational capability for the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Unmanned Aerial System Experimental (MUX) vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drone by 2025-26, but getting there will require the service to prioritize what capabilities it wants in the drone, Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Aviation Lt. Gen. Steven Rudder told the annual Sea-Air-Space symposium here this week. "There's not a MUX now. When you're hungry, it becomes something industry says can be X, Y,…

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