IBX30 leverages new UAS during Exercise Apollo Shield
A U.S. Marine Corps R80D Skyraider drone assigned to 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment (REIN), 7th Marine Regiment, flies during Exercise Apollo Shield at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Oct 19. 2023. Exercise Apollo Shield is the culminating event of Marine Corps Warfighting Lab’s 1-year crawl-walk-run bilateral effort to test equipment capabilities and evaluate tactics, techniques, and procedures. The Combat Center provides a training facility capable of truly testing the equipment and it is home to the infantry battalion experiment 2030, the first unit to receive the equipment tested by MCWL. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Justin J. Marty)