US Marine Corps (USMC)

C'est acté les Marines ont désactivé la composante blindée, pour se recentrer sur les opérations d'infanterie légeres et les actions amphibies. Laissant ainsi l'exclusivité de l'emploi de la force blindée à l'armée.

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021/03/22/goodbye-tanks-how-the-marine-corps-will-change-and-what-it-will-lose-by-ditching-its-armor/

Vamtac a écrit:

Les seals sont pas forcément des marines

C'est vrai, ils appartiennent à l'US NAVY, au début je l'ai mis dans la section US Navy puis je l'ai supprimé pour vérifier la date et je l'ai mis dans l'US Marine Corps sans m'en rendre compte.

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Un F-35B de l’US Marine Corps sérieusement endommagé lors d’un tir avec sa nacelle « canon »

PAR LAURENT LAGNEAU · 25 MARS 2021



L’histoire de l’aviation montre qu’il est possible qu’un avion de chasse soit victime de ses propres obus. Cela est par exemple arrivé à un Grumman F-11F Tiger, lors d’un vol d’essai réalisé en 1956 : l’appareil avait rattrapé les munitions qu’il venait de tirer après avoir enclenché la post-combustion. Plus récemment, une telle mésaventure est arrivée, sans que l’on ait su comment à l’époque, à un F-16 de la force aérienne néerlandaise, lors d’une passe canon sur une cible terrestre.

Et, désormais, le F-35B, la version STOVL [Short Take Off / Vertical Landing – décollage court et atterrissage vertical] de l’avion de combat développé par Lockheed-Martin, vient de rejoindre la liste des appareils endommagés par leurs propres obus.

Pour rappel, et à la différence du F-35A [la version classique], le F-35B et le F-35C [version navale] n’ont pas de canon interne. Pour disposer d’une telle capacité, il faut leur installer une « nacelle canon » GAU-22 de 25 mm sur un pylone ventral externe.

Or, le 24 mars, le site spécialisé Military.com a révélé qu’un F-35B de l’escadron de test et d’évaluation opérationnelle de l’US Marine Corps [VMX-1], a été victime d’un incident sérieux lors d’un mission nocturne d’appui aérien rapproché sur le polygone de tir de Yuma [Arizona], effectué au début de ce mois.

A priori, le fuselage de l’avion a été endommagé par l’explosion d’un obus PGU-32/U SAPHEI-T [Semi-Armor Piercing High Explosive Incendiary with Tracer] de sa nacelle canon. Il n’est pas clair si la munition a explosé ou non au moment d’un tir.

En tout cas, si le F-35B en question a pu se poser les dommages qu’il a subis sont importants puisqu’ils relèvent de la catégorie A, soit la plus élevée. Cette dernière concerne les incidents aériens ayant causé pour au moins 2,5 millions dollars de dégâts ou la perte d’un aéronef.

« L’accident n’a causé aucune blessure au personnel, et une enquête sur l’incident est actuellement en cours », a confié un porte-parole de l’USMC à Military.com.

Le canon du F-35 contient 220 obus de 25 mm dans un chargeur hélicoïdal qui tourne autour du canon lui-même et à une cadence de tir d’environ 3.000 coups par minute. L’USMC l’a utilisé avec ses F-35B sans avoir de problème jusqu’ici. Il est possible que l’incident dont a été victime l’appareil du VMX-1 ait été causé par une munition défectueuse. Les PGU-32/U SAPHEI-T sont fournis par General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems [GD-OTS]

http://www.opex360.com/2021/03/25/un-f-35b-de-lus-marine-corps-serieusement-endommage-lors-dun-tir-avec-sa-nacelle-canon/  

Encore avec leur problème de canon.. sacré Hassan 2..

Northrop a écrit:

Encore avec leur problème de canon.. sacré Hassan 2..

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C’est quoi le rapport avec Feu Hassan 2 ?

Dans une interview datant des années 80's, il comparaît les canons des chasseurs français qui sont montés en bas du nez, contrairement au chasseurs US qui sont montés au dessus du nez, comme le F5, ça aveuglé le pilote,ou en bas des ailes... surtout en plein combat..
Contrairement aux F1 qui était beaucoup plus agréable pour le pilote..
Il était un excellent pilote de chasse feu Hassan 2, même le F1 il l'a piloté..

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U.S. Marine Corps fields new rocket system

NEWSMARITIME SECURITYPRESS RELEASES By Dylan Malyasov Jul 6, 2021


Photo by David Beggel

The U.S. Marines Corps has announced that Marines have begun receiving a man-portable shoulder-launched multi-role weapon system from Saab that provides additional protection and lethality in urban environments.

According to a recent service news release, Marine Corps Systems Command began fielding the Carl-Gustaf M4, known in the U.S. as M3A1 Multi-Role Anti-Armor Anti-Personnel Weapons System (MAAWS), to infantry Marines in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

The new light-weight M3A1, weighing approximately 15 pounds, offers significant weight savings to the soldier. It is also compatible with future battlefield technology such as intelligent sighting systems for programmable ammunition. With a wide variety of munitions available, it is a weapon system capable of handling multiple tactical situations, bridging the gap between full-scale operations and low-intensity conflicts, and providing the modern warfighter with unprecedented flexibility and capability on the battlefield.

“The MAAWS is a reusable, long-range weapon that provides the capability to destroy armored vehicles, structures and fortifications, which will be useful for infantry Marines,” said Capt. Christopher Adsit, MCSC’s project officer for the MAAWS.

The system consists of the M3A1 Carl Gustaf Recoilless Rifle, a fire-control system and a backup reflex sight Marines can use if the primary optic malfunctions. It includes munitions that provide obscuration, illumination, anti-personnel, armor penetration, bunker- and hardened-facility penetration, and other destruction capabilities.

“It has the ability to fire [illumination], smoke and airburst-style rounds,” said Chief Warrant Officer 4 David Tomlinson, MCSC’s infantry weapons officer. “The capability will allow the warfighter to engage the enemy in defilade, reinforced bunkers and buildings.”

The MAAWS is augmenting the Mk153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon, a rocket system initially fielded to Marines in 1984 before undergoing several modifications in the 2000s. The Marine Corps has used the SMAW to destroy armored vehicles, bunkers and other fortifications.

However, the MAAWS can engage enemies at farther distances when compared with the SMAW. The MAAWS can also hit moving targets with the aid of its fire control system, increasing the accuracy and overall lethality of infantry squads.

Adsit said the MAAWS will also supplement the explosive power of the M72 Light Anti-Tank Weapon, a portable, one-shot anti-tank weapon. The additional rounds available to the MAAWS increase a squad’s options for target engagement.

“This new rocket system shoots farther than any of our current shoulder-launched rocket systems,” said Adsit. “It significantly increases the shoulder-fired rocket range.”

Earlier this year, new equipment, live-fire training events at the Schools of Infantry East and West enabled nearly 100 Marines to test the weapon. The MAAWS was well-received among participating Marines, including Sgt. David Beggel, a squad leader with 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment.

“When we do urban operations, we carry a rocket because you don’t know what kind of enemy we’ll have, what capabilities they’ll have,” said Beggel. “This gives us a wide range of opportunities and assets that we can use to destroy a vehicle or take out [the enemy].”

Increasing the lethality of Marines helps the Marine Corps meet future force design goals. Tomlinson said the overall capabilities of the MAAWS allows platoons to operate in more dispersed environments, supporting Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. David Berger’s vision for lower-level units to control more battlespace area.

“The MAAWS is important because it gives the squad an enhanced capability with increased lethality and will bring a greater combined-arms solution to the enemy,” said Tomlinson. “The rocket system will change the way the infantry squad fights.”

Tomlinson said all Fleet Marines will receive the MAAWS by the end of 2023 and Reserve Marines by 2024. He projects every Marine Corps battalion to have the weapon in their arsenal by 2025.

https://defence-blog.com/u-s-marine-corps-fields-new-rocket-system/

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19 AUGUST 2021

USMC fires two Naval Strike Missiles with new mobile launcher

by Ashley Roque

The US Marine Corps (USMC) is inching closer to fielding a mobile, anti-ship weapon system ideal for the Indo-Pacific region and recently test-fired two missiles that hit a sea-based target, the service announced on 17 August.

As part of the Large-Scale Exercise 21 scenario, the service used its new Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) on 15 August to validate some of its operating concepts including deploying it from a C-130 Hercules and a Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC).

“During the exercise, forward-deployed forces on expeditionary advanced bases detected and, after joint command-and-control collaboration with other US forces, responded to a ship-based adversary,” the USMC wrote. “Simultaneous impacts from multiple, dispersed weapons systems and platforms across different US services, including NMESIS, engaged the threat.”

Since NMESIS is still under development, the service said that engineers managed the weapon's fire-control system during the event but noted that marines were able to practice manoeuvring the system.



A Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) launcher deploys into position aboard
Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii, on 16 August. The NMESIS and its Naval Strike Missiles
participated in a live-fire exercise during Large-Scale Exercise 2021. (US Marine Corps)


The USMC is developing this mobile, anti-surface warfare weapon as part of its Force Design 2030 plan. In its current configuration, the system is based around an Oshkosh Defense 4×4 unmanned Joint Lightweight Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) chassis that is dubbed the Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary (ROGUE) Fires. This platform houses a launcher that can fire two of Raytheon's Naval Strike Missiles (NSMs).

https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/usmc-fires-two-naval-strike-missiles-with-new-mobile-launcher  

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... Cognitive Raider ...

Son premier Reaper ....

Ininterrompue est la réforme du régime de formation militaire aux USA...

Formation ... Formation ... formation ...

medium-lift UAV...