US Army - Lockheed Martin Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF)

The most interesting thing about that post is that it claims AGM-183 cannot hit a moving target. Not surprising to me, but still interesting to hear someone say it.
 
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The most interesting thing about that post is that it claims AGM-183 cannot hit a moving target. Not surprising to me, but still interesting to hear someone say it.
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That could be easily remedied by incorporating a terminal homing seeker into the glide-vehicle.
 
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Oshkosh Ground-Based Tomahawk Launcher Breaks Cover​

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/10/oshkosh-ground-based-tomahawk-launcher-breaks-cover/
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Oshkosh is also displaying the Medium Multi-Mission Autonomous Vehicle (M-MAV), an autonomous MLRS launcher based on the FMTV A2 medium truck. M-MAV can fire all missiles in the MLRS Family of Munitions which includes GMLRS, ER-GMLRS, PrSM, ATACMS, and future MFOM weapons like the Joint Reduced Range Rocket (JR3).
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1977882476782510474
View: https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1977882476782510474

https://www.rtx.com/raytheon/what-we-do/land/deepfiresKey Features
- DeepFires is compatible with a variety of effectors, including Tomahawk and Patriot missiles.
- Fully autonomous capabilities for driving, firing and resupply to reduce soldier involvement in high-risk zones.
- Engineered to operate in diverse and harsh environments, DeepFires delivers reliable performance regardless of terrain or weather conditions.
- Increased payload capacity supports sustained operations, reducing resupply frequency.
- DeepFires operates independently of external power sources, enhancing the launcher’s mobility and survivability.
- Designed for rapid global deployment, DeepFires is C-130 transportable, ensuring readiness wherever it's needed.

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What would be the expected target set?
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PrSM is mostly aimed at sensitive equipment/soft targets 500+km away. For harder/bigger targets, or where accuracy is degraded by jamming, you need a larger warhead, e.g. bridges, bunkers, hardened aircraft shelters, army barracks block, or ships with a terminal seeker and datalink upgrade at a later date. I see PrSM as an extended range MLRS rocket, a proper battlefield SRBM it isn't. At a later date pylon attachment points could also produce a cheap air-launched alternative to ARRW if that doesn't work out.

OpFires was probably too complicated/expensive. A single piece SRBM around about the full size of a Mk41 cell that can be mass-produced in volume is needed. If something like OpFires is still seen as necessary, I would simply lop the second stage off a dark Eagle and then later you could fit pylon attachment points and have HCSW-reborn, giving 3 distinct LRHW-based weapons with a high degree of commonality for reducing costs.
 
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So, Lockheed showed off its Long Range Maneuvering Fires missile (aka PrSM Inc 4) at AUSA today. It's a ramjet-powered "ballistic" missile, using the same EO/IR terminal seeker as PrSM Inc 2 (aka Land-Based AntiShip Ballistic Missile). They talk about a range of 800 km. The motor is a "dual mode" ramjet which I take to mean an integral ram rocket configuration.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-new...red-anti-ship-ballistic-missile-at-ausa-2025/
 

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So, Lockheed showed off its Long Range Maneuvering Fires missile (aka PrSM Inc 4) at AUSA today. It's a ramjet-powered "ballistic" missile, using the same EO/IR terminal seeker as PrSM Inc 2 (aka Land-Based AntiShip Ballistic Missile). They talk about a range of 800 km. The motor is a "dual mode" ramjet which I take to mean an integral ram rocket configuration.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-new...red-anti-ship-ballistic-missile-at-ausa-2025/
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One of these years they'll get ASALM working.
 
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This is very much surface level in terms of what General Atomics is actually doing with LRMP.

I would say I'm confused why Defense News did not opt for a show floor interview... but I know why and it hurts to see.
 

Castelion wins first platform integration contracts for Blackbeard hypersonic missile​

“While envisioned as a primary munition for CAML, Blackbeard GL is designed to be compatible with existing HIMARS platforms as an interim solution," the Army's fiscal 2026 budget said.

https://breakingdefense.com/2025/10...-contracts-for-blackbeard-hypersonic-missile/
A company executive declined to reveal what Army platforms the Blackbeard will be integrated on in line with the contracts, however fiscal 2026 budget documents — yet to be passed by Congress — reveal the Army’s plans to develop a future Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) variant. This variant, dubbed the HX3, could “double the range” of the baseline weapon, the PrSM 1, at a cheaper price point. The budget documents said the service plans to test this capability with Castelion’s Blackbeard hypersonic missile as a way to hit “time sensitive moving targets and hardened targets” at a “much-reduced cost per missile than currently exists in the Army inventory.”
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