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The Maritime Services, the Allies and Shaping the Kill Web

There are inherent electronic warfare capabilities resident in the F-35 but our vision also included the need
for unmanned aerial systems to proliferate in the battle space to round out the electronic warfare
requirements that the force will have.

We’re in our infancy right now in developing those capabilities, but the first step in achieving something is to
get started, and to put the capabilities in the hands of young men and women who are in the force and then
evolve the capability in a way that makes sense.

I’m confident that we are on that trajectory with our unmanned aerial systems and the payloads that we will
develop for those systems in the next few years.

Question: And the experience being gained now and in the next decade will clearly shape the way
ahead not only for the amphibious task force but for the unmanned element. In other words, the
approach is to experiment by operational use.

What happens next?

Lt. General (Retired) Trautman: The current Deputy Commandant for Aviation has been very prescient in
laying out a requirement for a program called MUX (MAGTF Unmanned eXpeditionary UAS) which the
current aviation plan says will be ready for initial operations in the 2025 time frame.

That platform, whatever it becomes, should have the capability to take off and land from the sea base, to
take off and land from an expeditionary operating location ashore and deliver long range relatively high
speed service to the fleet so that you can use that range and speed to your advantage.

It should also come in with adequate power and non-proprietary “hooks” so that future users can employ
whatever payloads make the best sense for the force as it evolves.

This is a very exciting time for the development of unmanned systems in support of the amphibious task force
and the Marine Corps.

The Next Phase in the Evolution of USMC UAS Capabilities: An Interview
with Colonel Barranco

2017-06-20 By Robbin Laird

In my recent interview with Lt. General (Retired) Trautman, the former Deputy Commandant of Aviation
highlighted how he saw the way ahead for unmanned air systems in the MAGTF:

The current Deputy Commandant for Aviation has been very prescient in laying out a requirement for a program
called MUX (MAGTF Unmanned eXpeditionary UAS) which the current aviation plan says will be ready for initial
operations in the 2025 time frame.

That platform, whatever it becomes, should have the capability to take off and land from the sea base, to take
off and land from an expeditionary operating location ashore and deliver long range relatively high speed
service to the fleet so that you can use that range and speed to your advantage.

It should also come in with adequate power and non-proprietary “hooks” so that future users can employ whatever
payloads make the best sense for the force as it evolves.
This is a very exciting time for the development of unmanned systems in support of the amphibious task force and
the Marine Corps.

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