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It could also be used against ships too.
PrSM already has an antiship seeker capacity in work (Increment 2).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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