M270 MLRS and M142 HIMARS Developments

[TomS]

It could also be used against ships too.

PrSM already has an antiship seeker capacity in work (Increment 2).

New Precision Strike Missile Seeker to Turn It Into Ship Killer

The US Army flight tested a Precision Strike Missile multimode seeker last year that enables the missile to perform maritime targeting.

www.thedefensepost.com

For the US missions, you need the range PrSM offers to have a credible antiship capacity in the Pacific.

As to moving targets and GMLRS, the US seems to have a different philosophy. If you have a target location and persistent tracking, you can use a standard guided rocket with in-flight course correction rather than stuffing a multimodal seeker into the projectile. Interestingly it's the same data link proposed for Patriot, which tells you something about how the US th inks about domain awareness. A track is a track, as far as we are concerned.

Lockheed Device Enables HIMARS Munitions to Strike Moving Targets

Lockheed Martin has demonstrated a communication device that provides in-flight target updates to munitions such as GMLRS.

www.thedefensepost.com

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1778484801705562232

View: https://x.com/Doha104p3/status/1778484801705562232

 

[NMaude]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1778484801705562232

View: https://x.com/Doha104p3/status/1778484801705562232

So what would the resulting unit price be then?

 

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So what would the resulting unit price be then?

Well $67.6m is stated to be 2.5% in the article, so the new total cost of 18,000 missiles is 39x67.6m = 2636.4m. 1 missile is 2636.4/18000 = 0.146m = $146k.

Unclear whether this is for GMLRS-ER though. That would be my guess though.

 

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Biden approved delivery of the long-range Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, in early March, and the U.S. included a “significant” number of them in a $300 million aid package announced at the time, one official said.

The two U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the delivery before it became public, would not provide the exact number of missiles given last month or in the latest aid package, which totals about $1 billion.

Ukraine uses long-range missiles secretly provided by US to hit Russian-held areas, officials say

U.S. officials say Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles, striking a Russian military airfield in Crimea and Russian troops in another occupied area overnight

www.independent.co.uk