Semper floats! Marines use sensor buoys to better understand ocean battlespace
E-Mail IMAGE: U.S. Marines with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, deploy an oceanographic sensor buoy during the Trident Warrior exercise. view more Credit: (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Juan Anaya) ARLINGTON, Va.--Flying several thousand feet above the Pacific Ocean, an air crew and a scientist from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution tossed cylindrical floats from a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft. Packed with data-gathering sensors to measure underwater conditions, the floats fell fast before orange parac...
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