To support combat support operations (banpur), the United States Marine Corps (USMC) will be strengthened by the presence of large cargo and logistics drones that can carry a payload of up to 68 kg and travel at a speed of 107 km per hour. This type of cargo drone adopts the quadcopter type, so it can operate VTOL (Vertical Take-off and Landing).
By USMC, these cargo copter drones are classified as supersized drones for battlefield resupply. On April 11, 2023, the US Department of Defense announced that it was allocating more than US$8 million for the procurement of 21 new cargo drones.
The cargo drone the USMC uses is officially called the TRV-150C Tactical Resupply Unmanned Aircraft Systems, made by Service Engineering in partnership with Malloy Aeronautics.
TRV-150C is a quadrupedal drone that looks like a quadcopter on stage. Its high landing legs allow it to take off with up to 68 kg of cargo slung underneath. The drone's four limbs mount two rotors each, making the vehicle more like an octocopter than a quadcopter.
A series of trials of the TRV-150C's capabilities have been practiced and not only theorized, namely trials using drones have been running since the end of March 2023 in Quantico, Virginia.
The Tactical Resupply Unmanned Aircraft System (TRUAS), like the TRV-150C, is designed to provide fast and guaranteed, automated air supply distribution to small units operating in contested environments; thereby enabling flexible and rapid emergency supply, routine distribution, and a constant push and pull of materials to ensure conditions of constant supply availability.
Malloy Aeronautics calls the TRV-150C a range of over 72 km; in trials by the USMC at Quantico, the drone was successfully tested to fly 15 km for a resupply mission with a payload of 68 kg. The TRV-150 has a battery that can be easily exchanged, allowing for a greater operational tempo as the drone itself does not need to wait to be recharged before being sent on its next mission.
This delivery drone uses “waypoint navigation for mission planning, which uses programmed coordinates to direct the aircraft's flight pattern. The simplicity of operation of the TRV-150 is designed so that a Marine with no experience with operating drones can be trained to operate it and perform field-level maintenance in just five days of training.
Reducing the complexity of drones into flying cargo that can deliver equipment autonomously if needed is huge. The types of supplies needed in battle are all easily delivered, from ammunition, food, blood stock to various medical equipment.
Previously, in 2021, British troops used TRV drones in training, with the drones tasked with delivering blood supplies to the wounded on the front lines.
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