{"id":117386,"date":"2020-12-19T17:18:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T01:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/the-marine-corps-is-on-the-hunt-for-a-kamikaze-drone-swarm-to-back-up-grunts-on-the-battlefield"},"modified":"2020-12-19T17:18:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T01:18:17","slug":"the-marine-corps-is-on-the-hunt-for-a-kamikaze-drone-swarm-to-back-up-grunts-on-the-battlefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/the-marine-corps-is-on-the-hunt-for-a-kamikaze-drone-swarm-to-back-up-grunts-on-the-battlefield","title":{"rendered":"The Marine Corps is on the hunt for a kamikaze drone swarm to back up grunts on the battlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-marine-corps-is-on-the-hunt-for-a-kamikaze-drone-swarm-to-back-up-grunts-on-the-battlefield.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Marine Corps is looking for industry sources to produce a man-portable system capable of launching swarms of kamikaze drones over contested battlefields, <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.sam.gov\/opp\/21d16cea3ac54479a469149515b957c6\/view?keywords=loitering&sort=-modifiedDate&index=&is_active=true&page=1\">according<\/a> to a new notice.<\/p>\n<p>In a request for information published earlier this month, Marine Corps System Command detailed a fresh need for an \u201cindividually operated, man-portable, anti-materiel, anti-personnel ground-launched loitering munition system\u201d for fielding to grunts in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called Organic Precision Fire-Infantry (OPF-I) capability will consist of a fresh infantry-operated system capable of launching drones that can conduct explosive strikes and are \u201ccapable of swarming\u201d over a 20-kilometer range for up to an hour and a half, <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.sam.gov\/opp\/21d16cea3ac54479a469149515b957c6\/view?keywords=loitering&sort=-modifiedDate&index=&is_active=true&page=1\">according<\/a> to the notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Corps is looking for industry sources to produce a man-portable system capable of launching swarms of kamikaze drones over contested battlefields, according to a new notice. In a request for information published earlier this month, Marine Corps System Command detailed a fresh need for an \u201cindividually operated, man-portable, anti-materiel, anti-personnel ground-launched loitering munition [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}