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The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS / ˈ h aɪ m ɑːr z /) is a light multiple rocket launcher developed in the late 1990s for the United States Army and mounted on a standard U.S. Army Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) M1140 truck frame.
The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is a rocket-launcher mounted on a five-ton truck chassis. The rocket launcher can load up to six 227-millimeter (8.93 inches in diameter ...
[citation needed] In 2003, the U.S. Army began low-rate production of the M142 HIMARS. The HIMARS fires all of the munitions of the MLRS, and is based on the chassis of the Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. [19] As of 2012, BAE Systems still had the capability to restart production of the MLRS. [1] In 2006, MLRS was upgraded to fire guided ...
HIMARS is a wily target, however: the M142’s truck chassis, the use of GPS to quickly lay in a HIMARS firing position, and Ukraine’s excellent network of paved roads mean that a HIMARS truck ...
The most advanced Western-supplied artillery system, the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System ... A U.S. M142 HIMARS rocket launcher is parked on the tarmac at the 2021 Dubai Airshow.
M142 HIMARS launching a GMLRS rocket at the White Sands Missile Range in 2005. A multiple rocket launcher (MRL) or multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) is a type of rocket artillery system that contains multiple launchers which are fixed to a single platform, and shoots its rocket ordnance in a fashion similar to a volley gun.
M141 rocket launcher, 2.75 inch, 7-tube aircraft mount, Mk 4/Mk 40 Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket; M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) M143 rocket launcher, 3.5-inch, 1-tube, tripod mount (M24 antitank mine)M24 mine; M147 rocket launcher, 2.75 inch, FIM-43 Redeye (1961) M151 rocket launcher, BGM-71 TOW (1970)
HIMARS launchers A US Army task force fires a HIMARS launcher from a missile range facility during during a military exercise. Japanese Ground Self Defense Force Courtesy Photo