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Marines Activate First Tomahawk Battery - USNI News
The Marine Corps stood up its first-ever Tomahawk cruise missile battery at Camp Pendleton, Calif., last week. Alpha Battery, which falls under the 11th Marine Regiment, is the first of three Long-Range Missile (LMSL) batteries that the service plans to procure starting in FY 2024.The Long-Range...
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The Marine Corps stood up its first-ever Tomahawk cruise missile battery at Camp Pendleton, Calif., last week.
Alpha Battery, which falls under the 11th Marine Regiment, is the first of three Long-Range Missile (LMSL) batteries that the service plans to procure starting in FY 2024.The Long-Range Fires Launcher will use the same ROGUE-Fires carrier of the Navy/Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) and mount a single Mk.41 vertical launch system cell, according to budgetary documents. Each LMSL battery will have 16 launchers, former Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger said in a statement before the Senate Appropriations Committee.
So the Battery will have 16 Ready to Launch Tomahawks mounted on the same vehicles as the NSM batteries.
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I was going to ask you lot to forgive me for harping..... but Nah..
So the Norwegians have got a common Command and Control system that works with virtually all NATO standard SAMs, as well as NSMs as well as MRLS missiles and rockets. The Germans and the Swiss have a similar set up for VSHORAD missiles and cannons. The Marines are launching NSMs and Tomahawks from unmanned light trucks.
Doesn't all this suggest, at the very least, that 4 GS Regiment's remit could be drawn a bit broader than just AD and that it could/should also take on the LRPF role that was discussed for it a decade ago?
And I still think that adding a missile/uav battery to each of the Horse (