{"id":8960,"date":"2025-05-06T01:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T01:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=8960"},"modified":"2025-05-06T01:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T01:02:51","slug":"marine-corps-could-be-among-first-users-of-electric-wing-in-ground-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=8960","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps Could Be Among First Users of Electric Wing-in-Ground Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Marine Corps Could Be Among First Users of Electric Wing-in-Ground Craft<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The U.S. Marine Corps is exploring the idea of buying Regent&#8217;s new all-electric wing-in-ground (WIG) craft to move troops around in the littorals of the Pacific Islands, the service&#8217;s R&amp;D lab told media at a conference in D.C. last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Corps&#8217; new fighting doctrine &#8211; Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations &#8211; is designed for conflict in the First Island Chain, in and around the small islands near Taiwan. In the event of a cross-strait invasion, small teams of heavily-armed marines would fan out to unimproved outposts south of Okinawa, where they would be well-positioned to harass Chinese warships with long-range missiles. The strategy depends on logistics to move these teams into remote locations, resupply them, and relocate them on the fly to keep ahead of the enemy. This requires a new fleet of landing craft, drones, and other methods of short-range transportation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/875356315?h=91f27b7340\" title=\"vimeo-player\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One novel transport mode could be advantageous in a fight, the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL)&#8217;s Matthew Koch told TWZ: an all-electric WIG craft. Koch&#8217;s team is looking closely at Regent&#8217;s Viceroy Seaglider, a 12-seat passenger craft designed to hit speeds of 180 knots on pure battery-electric power.<\/p>\n<p>Like other WIG designs, the Seaglider stays close to the surface and does not require FAA pilot licensing for operation. Unlike other WIG craft, it is whisper-quiet and cool-running because of its electric motors. This would give marines a fast, low-heat-signature, below-the-radar method to sneak into or out of remote sites.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/__is4z4o4NE\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first Regent Viceroy prototype began sea trials earlier this year. First commercial delivery is expected in 2027, and Regent says that it has secured billions in commercial preorders.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Corps has put down $10 million for a parallel military demonstration program, on top of a $5 million initial R&amp;D contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritime-executive.com\/article\/marine-corps-could-be-among-first-users-of-electric-wing-in-ground-craft\">Go to maritime executive<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Corps Could Be Among First Users of Electric Wing-in-Ground Craft The U.S. Marine Corps is exploring the idea of buying Regent&#8217;s new all-electric wing-in-ground (WIG) craft to move troops around in the littorals of the Pacific Islands, the service&#8217;s R&amp;D lab told media at a conference in D.C. last week.\u00a0 The Marine Corps&#8217; new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-8960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime-executive","tag-maritime-executive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}