By year’s end, the Marine Corps will be fielding thousands of small aerial drones across its operational forces. Marine Corps ...

The Marines need a whopping 648 JFOs to fill every active-duty rifle squad across the Corps and 243 in the reserves. Across the Corps’ ground combat element to include recon and armor, the Corps ...

The Marine Corps has established an attack drone team as part of an effort to make sure rifle squads have the technology and tactics to find and destroy enemies up to 20 kilometers away, said Col ...

A standard Marine Corps rifle squad will continue to be 13 Marines with at least one rifleman trained for expertise in long-range weapons like drones, Marine Corps ... to attack an enemy from a ...

A standard Marine Corps rifle squad will continue to be 13 Marines with at least one rifleman trained for expertise in long-range weapons like drones, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith ...

Marine Corps Wants Rifle-Mounted Jammers, 'Buckshot-Like' Ammo to Help Grunts Counter Drones. ... attack from threat Groups 1 and 2 small UAS," according to the notice.

U.S. Marine Pfc. Dustin Miller fires his M16A4 service rifle during his annual rifle qualification at Range 116A on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Oct. 10, 2019.

The Corps is pairing the new attack drone team with its prestigious shooting team. Rifles are cornerstones for the service. Drones could be too.

The raid was the most costly enemy assault of the war in Afghanistan, killing two U.S. Marines and destroying six Marine attack jets -- aircraft which each cost between $20 million and $30 million.