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Army Speeds Up Fielding Artillery Missile By Five Years

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

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Army Speeds Up Fielding Artillery Missile By Five Years

The launch of an Advanced Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) unit. Photo: Lockheed Martin

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A team of senior Army leaders, acquisition officials and engineers empowered to work directly with industry on a specific need will deliver a long-range precision artillery missile as many as five years sooner than originally planned.The long-range precision fires (LRPF) cross-functional team (CFT) plans on buying prototypes of the Precision Strike Missile, a successor to the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), in fiscal 2019 and could deliver operational copies in 2022 or 2023, years ahead of the…

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