Marines experiment with new tech during force-on-force experiment

By Justin Doubleday / August 9, 2016 at 2:55 PM
TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA -- Marines went into simulated battle here with more than 40 experimental technologies, as the service assesses how to best support distributed forces over great distances in potential future conflicts. The Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Integrated Experiment, as the exercise here was named, was run by the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab. The lab's hypothesis for the exercise, according to officials, was to see if a company-sized force could deploy from a ship more than 100 miles...

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