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

Scott Kenny said:
You could have simply answered the question the first time.

"No, haven't seen a designation in any open literature."

Takes 10 seconds.
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I don't take the time to answer every question I don't have an answer to. Do you?

Especially when he asks the same question over and over again. He asks basically every time PrSM gets mentioned.
 
TomS said:
I don't take the time to answer every question I don't have an answer to. Do you?

Especially when he asks the same question over and over again. He asks basically every time PrSM gets mentioned.
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Every question? No.

One that's on my mind as well? Yes.

But I'm starting to suspect that PrSM will never get an official MDS designation, nor an M-series number. Just like THAAD.
 
Scott Kenny said:
Every question? No.

One that's on my mind as well? Yes.

But I'm starting to suspect that PrSM will never get an official MDS designation, nor an M-series number. Just like THAAD.
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THAAD has at least a MDS-like number.
 
TomS said:
THAAD has at least a MDS-like number.
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Maybe, from @Andreas Parsch's THAAD article:

Designation Note: No confirmed formal alphanumeric designation for the THAAD missile is known. While there are a few isolated references in Army logistics and training files to a "Guided Missile, Intercept-Aerial, THAAD MIM-401" and "Guided missile sub-system, intercept-aerial MIM-401B" (and -401C), it is far from certain, that the MDS designator MIM-401 has really been officially allocated to THAAD. The number 401 would be way out of sequence, and DOD MDS records up until January 2024 don't include any MIM-401 designation. Also, the number is suspiciously close to XM400, the official Army nomenclature for the Patriot PAC-3 MSE missile. It cannot be ruled out, that the THAAD missile was to be designated (X)M401, and that this was somehow semi-officially converted to MIM-401, to look like a regular guided missile MDS.
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If the THAAD has an actual MDS designation then the US Army has been rather coy about it.

Now as to what the PrSM's MDS designation would be, well it would start with "MGM" so perhaps something like the MGM-188A (Following the AGM-187A JAGM-F) or if out of sequence, say, MGM-261A (Following the AIM-260A JATM) or the MGM-402A (Following the alleged THAAD MDS designator MIM-401A).
 
When I'm quoted, I'm tempted to reply ;) ...

NMaude said:
If the THAAD has an actual MDS designation then the US Army has been rather coy about it.
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I very much doubt that "MIM-401" has gone through the (official) process of MDS allocation. But the Army being "coy about" a designation is not unusual. I know several MDS, which are allocated for the Army but which I have never seen anywhere except in DOD's nomenclature list.

NMaude said:
Now as to what the PrSM's MDS designation would be, [...]
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This speculation is relatively pointless. Most likely, the Army is not going to have an MDS allocated at all (because otherwise, they would already have done so quite a while ago).
 
bobbymike said:
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Army to sole-source deal for hypervelocity projectiles, drone-killing artillery cannon

The Army intends to award prototyping agreements to BAE Systems for multi-domain artillery cannon and hypervelocity projectiles to shoot down drones and other airborne threats.
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breakingdefense.com

Army, Navy experimentation efforts foreshadow second wind for Hypervelocity Projectile - Breaking Defense

Both services view the projectile as a potential defense against unmanned aerial drone threats on land or at sea.
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