{"id":32069,"date":"2024-04-11T20:44:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/04\/11\/marines-work-with-new-ships-interceptors-and-drone-platforms\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:01:08","slug":"marines-work-with-new-ships-interceptors-and-drone-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2024\/04\/11\/marines-work-with-new-ships-interceptors-and-drone-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines work with new ships, interceptors and drone platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Marine Corps seeks to purchase eight new ships over the next five years, in the current budget proposal, to move littoral regiments around islands in the Pacific as it aims to counter the Chinese military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commandant Gen. Eric Smith told members of the House Committee on Appropriations in a hearing Wednesday<\/a> that the Corps would acquire the first landing ship medium in fiscal 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Force Design effort continues apace, and it requires a landing ship medium,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Corps needs ships that can \u201cgo inter-island and to be able to beach itself and to come off a beach in order to carry these capabilities of long-range fires and sensing and making sense and passing to the joint force what the (People\u2019s Republic of China) is doing throughout the first island chain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t