Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) and Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary munitions successfully completed stockpile reliability tests using a High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) recently, the company said Monday.
The tests comprised eight GMLRS rockets conditioned at hot and ambient temperatures. The ATACMS Unitary missile, the current production configuration, was conditioned hot for the test. HIMARS launchers can fire ATACMS and GMLRS munitions varying between 15 km and 300 km, Lockheed Martin said.
The flight tests, part of the U.S. Army’s tactical munitions reliability program, were conducted using simulated targets at the White Sands Missile Range, N.M.
For the test, soldiers initiated the launches from inside the HIMARSA’ Improved Armored Cab.
“Lockheed Martin’s HIMARS, ATACMS and GMLRS precision fire solutions provide critical, quick-strike capabilities to U.S. and allied forces worldwide,” Ken Musculus, vice president of tactical missiles at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, said in a statement
HIMARS has been in service since 2005 and combines the capabilities of MLRS with a wheeled chassis. It carries a six-pack of rockets or one ATACMS missile. HIMARS can launch the full MLRS family of munitions, the company said.