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Marine Corps Taps Three Firms For New Lightweight Loitering Munitions Program

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, April 15th, 2024

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Marine Corps Taps Three Firms For New Lightweight Loitering Munitions Program

Organic Precision Fires-Light. Photo: Teledyne FLIR Defense.

The Marine Corps has selected AeroVironment [AVAV], Anduril Industries and Teledyne FLIR Defense [TDY] for a new competitive program to provide lightweight loitering munitions for infantry squads. The three firms picked for the Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-L) program will work under a potential eight-year, $249 million contract that covers building, testing and delivering their non-developmental armed drones. “The flexibility, adaptability and breadth of our proposed OPF-L platform will boost small unit lethality across the large target set Marines must confront…

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