{"id":32397,"date":"2025-04-17T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T06:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=32397"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:13:11","slug":"navy-marine-expeditionary-ship-interdiction-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/navy-marine-expeditionary-ship-interdiction-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>NMESIS Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Philippines recently confirmed the deployment of US anti-ship missile system *NMESIS for this year\u2019s Balikatan military exercises.<\/p>\n<h2>About NMESIS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an<strong> anti-ship missile system<\/strong> developed <strong>for the US Marine Corps (USMC)<\/strong> to support land-to-sea attacks performed by the US Navy.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>features <\/strong>the <strong>US Navy\u2019s latest anti-ship missile<\/strong>, the <strong>Naval Strike Missile (NSM), mounted atop<\/strong> the chassis of an <strong>unmanned variant of the Oshkosh Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>ground vehicle platform<\/strong>, known as <strong>Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary (ROGUE) Fires vehicle<\/strong>, is supplied by Oshkosh Defense, United States, while the NSM is jointly manufactured by Raytheon Missiles &amp; Defense (Raytheon), United States, and Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence &amp; Aerospace.<\/li>\n<li>NMESIS is <strong>not considered an autonomous launcher,<\/strong> as its fire control system is not controlled by the self-driving system and autonomy technology.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>system is operated by a marine<\/strong> who is responsible for mission planning and firing of the missile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Features of ROGUE Fires<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It incorporates advanced <strong>autonomous vehicle technologies, off-road mobility,<\/strong> and <strong>high payload<\/strong> carrying capacity.<\/li>\n<li>The vehicle is <strong>remotely operated<\/strong> using the <strong>teleoperator <\/strong>or leader-follower modes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The vehicle<strong> lacks a crew cab\/body.<\/strong> It is integrated with <strong>sensors and cameras, <\/strong>with a <strong>launcher mounted atop <\/strong>the vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>flexible design<\/strong> of the platform allows it to be configured to meet different mission requirements.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Features of NSM<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>multi-mission cruise missile<\/strong> that can ably neutralise highly secure maritime and land targets.<\/li>\n<li>The missile can destroy enemy ships located more than <strong>100 nm (185 km) away.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Equipped with an <strong>advanced seeker, <\/strong>it provides high-precision capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>The missile can escape enemy radars by performing manoeuvres and flying close to sea level.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It carries a 226.79 kg-class warhead and programmable fuse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/videos\/world\/philippines-us-ready-nmesis-missile-system-for-full-battle-test-russia-eyes-indonesian-air-base-9300498.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">N18<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NMESIS is an anti-ship missile system developed for the US Marine Corps (USMC) to support land-to-sea attacks performed by the US Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":32398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[166,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-32397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-navy-marine-expeditionary-ship-interdiction-system","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}