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MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. \u2014 The U.S. Marine Corps is pushing two air defense systems closer to fielding this year, as emerging threats in Europe and the Middle East highlight the need to keep Marine units safe from incoming missiles and drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Medium-Range Intercept Capability, which rapidly integrated several existing systems to create a new cruise missile defense capability, is moving into training and integration this year ahead of an operational assessment in September. The Corps plans to hand over the first system to 1st Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion in Hawaii in June 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service also announced this month it successfully tested the Marine Air Defense Integrated System, or MADIS, in December during a live-fire event that saw the system shoot down several drones at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lt. Gen. Karsten Heckl, the deputy commandant for combat development and integration, told Defense News in a Jan. 12 interview that integrated air and missile defense is becoming increasingly important for the service\u2019s future operating plans and its Force Design modernization initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you look at how we\u2019ve approached [integrated air and missile defense] from a Force Design perspective, it\u2019s got to be layered defense, and so the MRIC [Medium-Range Intercept Capability] is complementary and overlaps our MADIS and [Light] MADIS,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heckl added that a critical concern former Commandant Gen. David Berger and current Commandant Gen. Eric Smith had about Force Design is the ability to defend small units on the forward edge \u2014 or inside an enemy\u2019s weapons engagement zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe MRIC is going to be a critical piece of that,\u201d Heckl said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Medium-Range Intercept Capability prototype is seen on display at the General Raymond G. Davis Center at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., on Jan. 12, 2024. (Lance Cpl. Michael Bartman\/U.S. Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pointing to ongoing missile and drone attacks in the Red Sea as well as ashore in the Middle East, Heckl said the integrated air and missile defense model is already at play among the joint force: U.S. and allied naval ships are shooting down what they can at sea, but ground units in Iraq, for example, have still come under attack by incoming aerial threats. MRIC and MADIS would provide additional layers of defense for these units once fielded, he said, supplementing the broader protection Navy assets can provide to the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What matters \u201cis how that Marine force \u2026 is nested within the larger joint force. So I think we\u2019re seeing a real-world live view of that happening in the Middle East, and I think it\u2019s working pretty doggone good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new anti-missile system<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The MRIC system will go from concept to fielding in about five years<\/a>, due to its use of existing systems: the AN\/TPS-80 Ground\/Air Task-Oriented Radar; the Common Aviation Command and Control System; the Tamir interceptor missile and an associated battle management system used in the Iron Dome defensive system in Israel; and a repurposed resupply trailer of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lt. Col. Matthew Beck, the product manager for MRIC, told Defense News the system had performed well in several live-fire events<\/a>, but noted that personnel from the equipment manufacturers and the program office had run them. The next step, he said, is to train a low-altitude air defense battalion to use the gear and to conduct their own operations without outside help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Medium-Range Intercept Capability prototype is seen on display at the General Raymond G. Davis Center at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., on Jan. 12, 2024. (Lance Cpl. Michael Bartman\/U.S. Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Though the Corps hasn\u2019t identified which unit will participate in this year\u2019s training and the operational assessment in September, he said it will include low-altitude air defense battalion members, who will manage the intercept with help from a Marine aircraft control group to operate the G\/ATOR radar. Those units, once identified, will undergo \u201csignificant training events\u201d ahead of the September test, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From there, 1st Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion will prepare to accept the new equipment, scheduled for June 2025. Beck said the Corps hopes to spread the capability to the rest of the fleet as rapidly as possible after that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heckl agreed he\u2019d like to see MRIC fielded quickly but noted his main concern was \u201coutstripping industrial base capability\u201d to build the interceptor missile. He didn\u2019t want units with empty launchers, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To that end, Tamir builder Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has teamed up with RTX<\/a> \u2014 formerly known as Raytheon Technologies \u2014 to build the interceptor missiles at Camden, Arkansas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RTX spokeswoman Briana Gabrys told Defense News that a new production facility\u2019s design and construction plans are in the works, and that factory test equipment was already ordered. The facility is expected to open in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She declined to disclose how many interceptors this new production line will build, but said it will produce enough missiles to support the U.S. Marine Corps, Israel and other international customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American-built interceptors will be dubbed SkyHunter, but will be identical to Tamir missiles, which can shoot down cruise missiles, crewed aircraft, drones, rockets, artillery and mortars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global threats<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

MRIC is meant to protect fixed and semi-fixed locations, but users can move it with the help of a Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement. MADIS, on the other hand, is mounted atop a pair of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles and can provide a close-in protection to forces on the forward edge. One piece of the system detects incoming drones and small aircraft; the other shoots Stinger missiles and a 30mm cannon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The December test in Arizona subjected the system to \u201cactual battlefield scenarios,\u201d according to a Marine Corps news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Marines with Marine Corps Systems Command fire a Stinger Missile from a Marine Air Defense Integrated System (MADIS) at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, Dec. 13, 2023. (Virginia Guffey\/US Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The system will go through additional live-fire testing, new equipment training, system verification testing, and initial operational test and evaluation between now and September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If successful, the 3rd Littoral Anti-Air Battalion will received MADIS. That battalion provides air defense to the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, which is at the heart of the Marine Corps\u2019 stand-in force in the Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both of the air defense systems are important to the Marines\u2019 Force Design modernization effort. The service plans to send small units to dispersed locations throughout the Pacific region as a deterrence to China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critics of Force Design and its chief architect, former Commandant Berger<\/a>, have long argued the service is developing a force that\u2019s only applicable to a Pacific-based fight. But Heckl said ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Europe justify decisions made under Force Design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have an axis of evil \u00ad\u2014 Russia and the [Chinese Communist Party] are openly aligned, and now we\u2019ve got Iran, North Korea, North Korea supplying Russia, Iran is supplying the Houthis<\/a>,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s becoming less and less an issue of separating the CCP from anybody else\u201d because technology is being shared among these countries and militant groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A group of Marine Air Defense Integrated Systems are set up for testing during a system integration event at Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona on Sept. 27, 2023. (Neil Mabini\/U.S. Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As a result, all the threats Marines were preparing for in the Pacific could be \u2014 and in some cases already are \u2014 used in other theaters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing bear itself out in the Middle East<\/a> right now conceptually supports the direction [of Force Design],\u201d Heckl said, citing loitering munitions, drone swarms and unmanned surface vessels<\/a>. \u201cSo all these concerns clearly are a physical manifestation now of what we thought\u201d Marines needed to prepare for in the Pacific and elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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