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Marines can now hit targets 20 kilometers away with new FPV drones
['Nicholas Slayton', 'Contributing Editor', 'Justin Burgess', 'Haley Britzky', 'Jeff Schogol', 'Patty Nieberg', 'Kyle Gunn']
Task & Purpose
In both tests, Marines operated Neros Archer drones, a small quadcopter model meant to fly into targets and take them out.
The small drones can let squads of Marines hit a target far away with a small flying explosive.
Like other FPV drones, the Archer transmits a live video feed to its operator, who watches its path via goggles and controls its flight path.
This summer the Marine Corps moved both the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction Systems, or NMESIS, and Marine Air Defense Integrated Systems, or MADIS, weapons platforms to Okinawa.
FPV drones, meanwhile, are for dealing with smaller ground-based positions.