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I'm Cpl. Savannah Mosby with your Marine Minute.
Marine Corps snipers are getting a new weapons system. The Marine Corps will be equipping snipers with Mk 13 Mod 7 sniper rifles, which fire .300 Magnum rounds and have a range that goes beyond 1,000 yards. Snipers have carried some version of the M40 since 1966, which only have a range of 1,000 yards falling short of other sniper rifles used across the military. The new selection ends the search for a rifle that will extend sniper teams range and lethality.
Also in the Corps,
The Marine Corps recently set two new milestones for the F-35 program. Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 loaded a 1,000 pound bomb onto an F-35B aboard the amphibious assault ship Wasp, March 24. This marked the first time live-munitions have been loaded onto an F-35 while underway during a deployment. Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122 out of Yuma, Arizona, conducted its first flight operations with the F-35B Lightning II, March 29, 2018. The Corps is still shifting to the brand new F-35B while phasing out some of its legacy aircraft.
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| Date Taken: | 04.04.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 04.05.2018 14:06 |
| Category: | Newscasts |
| Audio ID: | 51613 |
| Filename: | 1804/DOD_105473989.mp3 |
| Length: | 00:01:00 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Genre | Newscast |
| Location: | US |
| Web Views: | 32 |
| Downloads: | 1 |
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