M270 MLRS and M142 HIMARS Developments

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

www.thedefensepost.com

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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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.
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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
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www.telegraph.co.uk

China is pushing. The Philippine forces are pushing back – with ship-killer missiles

Just a harmless training exercise
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The C-Stars that arm the Jose Rizal-class frigates are just the first of a trio of new anti-ship systems on Manila’s shopping list. The Philippines is also buying Brahmos ground-launched anti-ship missiles from India as well as wheeled High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers from the United States. HIMARS launchers fire the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) artillery missile, primarily useful in land warfare.

But American arms-maker Lockheed Martin, which produces the HIMARS, is developing an anti-ship missile that would be compatible with the HIMARS’ rocket pod.

“Our new equipment will be coming soon,” Philippine army chief Gen. Romeo Brawner said last year.

With C-Star and Brahmos missiles and potentially HIMARS-launched anti-ship missiles, Philippine forces could threaten Chinese ships hundreds of miles from the Philippine coast. The disputed Second Thomas Shoal, the locus of a bitter and escalating territorial dispute between The Philippines and China, lies just 100 miles west of the Philippine island of Palawan.
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Presumably they are refering to PrSM.
 
sferrin said:
ATACMS most likely.
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The ship-killer in question is almost certainly the Brahmos AShM, that missile in tests has not only sunk the target with just one missile in some cases it has blown the target in half before sinking.

TomS said:
The Cross-Domain ATACMS with a seeker was cancelled in FY21.
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No doubt Congress is regretting that decision in light of what has been happening in Ukraine since 2022, Ukraine would no doubt have put the cross-domain ATACMS to good use sinking Russian warships.
 
NMaude said:
The ship-killer in question is almost certainly the Brahmos AShM, that missile in tests has not only sunk the target with just one missile in some cases it has blown the target in half before sinking.
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The article mentions three antiship weapons: CStar, Brahmos, and a HIMARS-launched weapon that pretty much has to be PrSM.
 
NMaude said:
The ship-killer in question is almost certainly the Brahmos AShM, that missile in tests has not only sunk the target with just one missile in some cases it has blown the target in half before sinking.



No doubt Congress is regretting that decision in light of what has been happening in Ukraine since 2022, Ukraine would no doubt have put the cross-domain ATACMS to good use sinking Russian warships.
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You were saying.

www.forbes.com

In Blowing Up A Russian Minesweeper, Ukraine May Have Revealed A Secret: It Has ATACMS Rockets With 470-Pound Warheads

The Ukrainian military sank another warship from the Russian Black Sea Fleet on Sunday, possibly hitting it with M48 or M57 ATACMS rockets with unitary warheads.
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