{"id":28874,"date":"2023-05-05T22:26:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T22:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/05\/05\/marine-corps-wants-13m-for-automated-war-zone-air-delivery-drones\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:00:11","slug":"marine-corps-wants-13m-for-automated-war-zone-air-delivery-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/unmanned\/2023\/05\/05\/marine-corps-wants-13m-for-automated-war-zone-air-delivery-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps wants $13M for automated war zone  air delivery drones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon may have had the vision, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/12\/29\/new-in-2022-marines-are-finally-leveling-up-their-drone-game\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Corps is making it reality.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After years of experimenting with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2022\/07\/18\/marine-corps-wants-to-test-out-attritable-partner-drones-new-mq-9-payloads\/\" target=\"_blank\"> airborne delivery drones<\/a>, the service believes it has a winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its fiscal 2024 budget request, the Marine Corps is asking to buy 41<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/05\/10\/marines-eye-tactical-resupply-drone-prototypes\/\" target=\"_blank\"> tactical resupply unmanned aircraft systems<\/a>, or TRUAS, for a total investment of more than $13 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the service set to take delivery of previous orders of the drones this spring and expecting to declare initial operational capability on the system later this fall, it will be a big year, not only for tactical resupply unmanned aircraft systems, but also for the concept of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2018\/09\/26\/check-out-the-massive-do-it-all-drone-that-marines-could-choose-as-their-wingman\/\" target=\"_blank\">unmanned aerial resupply.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/05\/10\/marines-eye-tactical-resupply-drone-prototypes\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MK4-RX-UAV-edited.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Marines eye tactical resupply drone prototypes<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Just like Amazon wants to use drones to drop off packages on your doorstep, the Marines want to use UAS systems for tactical resupply to squads in the field.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Built like large quadcopters, the systems are designed to carry payloads of up to 150 pounds over distances of up to nine miles in containers secured underneath. The unit cost of about $325,000 per drone is certainly steep, but Marine officials say it\u2019s substantially more sophisticated than the remote-controlled commercial drones it resembles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather than being manually flown, tactical resupply unmanned aircraft systems are programmed with waypoints that determine itinerary and flight pattern, meaning it requires less hands-on attention from Marine operators than most of the Corps\u2019 quadcopters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It takes just two Marines to monitor and maintain one in the field, and those Marines can learn everything they need to know about taking care of it in just five training days, according to Master Sgt. Chris Genualdi, an airborne and air delivery specialist with Combat Development and Integration, who discussed the system in an April news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tactical resupply unmanned aircraft systems concept is closely aligned with the Marine Corps\u2019 all-consuming vision for future warfare, which involves small, independent units operating from great distances from austere outposts \u2015 perhaps on islands in the vast Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the system isn\u2019t designed to cross the ocean with supplies, it might be dispatched from a ship to a landing zone in hostile conditions ashore that might preclude a helicopter or V-22 Osprey delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs system technology advances in future years, [Unmanned Expeditionary Systems] will \u2026 include emerging technologies to include autonomous distribution capabilities for elements across the MAGTF and [Marine Littoral Regiments], enabling more diversified distribution and the sustainment of Marine Corps forces across future operating environments,\u201d officials wrote in fiscal 2024 budget justification documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tactical resupply unmanned aircraft systems provide \u201can organic battlefield logistics capability to distribute critical supplies via an unmanned platform while conducting\u201d expeditionary advanced base operations safely within a weapons engagement zone, \u201cwhere the risk to manned aircraft would deny manned aviation resupply operations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marine leaders plan to scale the technology as it proves itself, according to the April news release, eventually building larger and higher-capacity platforms according to the same model that might further advance the objectives of the Corps\u2019 expeditionary advanced base operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To this end, the service is also planning to launch a new military occupational specialty, or military job, focused on operating resupply drones. That job will be called small unmanned logistics system \u2014 air specialist. The timing of its rollout has not been announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April, defense contractor Leidos announced a contract with the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shephardmedia.com\/news\/uv-online\/leidos-developing-a-resupply-drone-for-the-us-marine-corps\/\"> Marine Corps to build a larger autonomous drone prototype<\/a> \u2015 similar to a helicopter with a double stack of rotors \u2015 that would be able to travel up to 100 nautical miles and carry up to 600 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe utility of the TRUAS reaches beyond combat,\u201d the recent Marine Corps release states, with its capabilities being highly effective in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn disaster areas that may not be accessible by conventional means, the TRUAS could be used to transport much needed supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Corps contracted for 35 tactical resupply unmanned aircraft systems drones in August 2022 and 30 more in March 2023, according to Marine Corps budget documents, but all are set for delivery in the first half of this year from SURVICE Engineering, out of Aberdeen, Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The effort to develop the tactical resupply unmanned aircraft systems began in earnest with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navair.navy.mil\/news\/DoN-completes-prize-challenge-tactical-resupply-UAS-challenge\/Mon-02102020-0936\">Department of the Navy \u201cfly-off\u201d prize challenge launched in 2020<\/a> at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, to build a rugged and reliable small cargo-carrying drone. SURVICE took the $100,000 first-place prize in that effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While tactical resupply unmanned aircraft systems only have been employed in field user evaluations and training and not proven in combat, the Marine Corps has moved relatively quickly to make its delivery-drone requirement a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s far from the only entity seeking to capitalize on reliable unmanned aerial logistics. In 2013, online retail giant Amazon made headlines when <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6093371\/amazon-drone-delivery-service\/\">then-CEO Jeff Bezos announced that it would be delivering packages<\/a> via aerial drone by 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/2\/2\/23582294\/amazon-prime-air-drone-delivery\">A decade later<\/a>, Amazon has launched a very limited regional version of the service, and the company says it\u2019s still working on developing its vision for \u201cAmazon Prime Air.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The systems are designed to carry payloads of up to 150 pounds over distances of up to nine miles in containers secured 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