Talisman Saber 2017 - Expeditionary Fire Support System
July 2017 - A look at how Golf Battery, Battalion Landing
Team 3rd Battalion 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary
Unit utilizes the M327 Expeditionary Fire Support System
(EFSS) to increase proficiency with indirect fire during day
and nighttime operations on Townshend Island, Australia
during Talisman Saber 2017.
The 31st MEU is taking part in
Talisman Saber, a biennial exercise designed to improve the
interoperability between Australian and U.S. forces, while
deployed on its regularly-scheduled patrol of the
Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Garett Burns Video edited by USA Patriotism!
Expeditionary Fire Support System
The EFSS expands the maneuver
commander’s choices of fire-support capability against an
array of targets including light-armored, motorized, and
dismounted personnel; command and control systems; and
indirect fire systems. The system’s Prime Mover vehicle
along with the 120mm towed rifled mortar is designed to be
internally transportable in the MV-22 Osprey, CH-53, C-130
and the C-5 aircraft.
The Expeditionary Fire Support
System is comprised of a Prime Mover vehicle, 120mm towed
rifle mortar weapon, a family of insensitive munitions (IM)
compliant ammunition and the ammunition trailer.
