The Marine Corps is giving infantry Marines a new kind of firepower: low-cost FPV one-way attack drones. In this video, I visit Camp Lejeune to see the Neros Archer drone system in action — a $2,000 drone paired with a modular payload that can turn it into a precision strike weapon, a flying claymore, or an anti-armor system. More importantly, this isn’t just about the drone. It’s about how the Marine Corps took lessons from Ukraine, moved fast, accepted an 80% solution, and built a real weapons system in less than a year. We’ll look at how the Archer works, why the Marines chose an NDAA-compliant FPV platform, how the payload system uses existing C4 and blasting caps, how drone teams are trained, and why this could push long-range precision fires down to the company, platoon, or even squad level. This may be one of the most important mindset shifts in the modern Marine Corps.
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