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L3Harris Cuts Ribbon On New Rocket Motor Facility To Support GMLRS

L3Harris Cuts Ribbon On New Rocket Motor Facility To Support GMLRS
1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment, 41st Field Artillery Brigade fires a Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) from an M270 multiple launch rocket system during the Thunder Cloud live-fire exercise in Andoya, Norway on Sept. 15, 2021 (U.S. Army Photo)

L3Harris Technologies [LHX] on Tuesday opened a new solid rocket motor production facility in Camden, Ark., aimed at doubling capacity in support of the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS). Production of GMLRS motors has more than doubled already the past few years, the company said. The new facility will cut manufacturing lead time in half and give the company the capability to produce one rocket motor every nine minutes, L3Harris said. Lockheed Martin [LMT] builds GMLRS. The 60,000 square…

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