US Marines Conduct First NMESIS Launch In Two Years

U.S. Marines from the 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division carried out a test firing of the Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) from Point Mugu, CA.
Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, conducted their first testing firing of a Naval Strike Missile (NSM) from the Navy/Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS). According to the press release, the test took place last month at Naval Air Station Point Mugu in California.
This marks the third firing of the Raytheon-built NSM from the Oshkosh Defense’s Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary (ROGUE) Fires vehicle. The first live fire took place in November 2020, while the second took place in August of 2021 during Large Scale Exercise 21.
NMESIS will allow units such as Marine Littoral Regiments (MLR) to deny coastal areas and other key chokepoints to the enemy. Owing to its compact and unmanned launcher design based on a JLTV chassis, the system gives Littoral Combat Teams (LCT) greater flexibility and enhances unit survivability.
NMESIS batteries are composed of 18 launchers which are separated into two platoons of nine launchers each. The platoons are further subdivided into three sections of three launchers each. The USMC plans to field 14 batteries of which three batteries will be deployed to MLRs while 11 will be deployed to the CONUS in support of rotational MEU deployments.