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The HIMARS carries one pod with either six Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System rockets or one ATACMS missile. It is based on the U.S. Army's FMTV five-ton truck, and is capable of launching all rockets in the Multiple Launch Rocket System Family of Munitions. HIMARS ammunition pods are interchangeable with the M270 MLRS. It has a single pod ...
Each rocket pod contains 6 identical rockets. The cost of an M31 missile is estimated at $500,000, [ 65 ] though this may be the "export price", always higher than the amount charged to the U.S. Army. [ 66 ] According to the U.S. Army's budget, it will pay about $168,000 for each GMLRS in 2023.
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 ...
The missiles can be fired from the tracked M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and the wheeled M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). An ATACMS launch container (pod) has one rocket but a lid patterned with six circles like a standard MLRS rocket lid to prevent an enemy from discerning what type of missile is loaded. [1]
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) M157 rocket launcher, 2.75 inch, 7-tube, aircraft mount, Mk 4/Mk 40 Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket
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.
M1140 A1/A1R HIMARS High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, launcher chassis M1147 LHS (palletized) Load Handling System Trailer [ 5 ] NSN 2320-01-508-7887 M1148 A1R/A1P2 LHS (palletized) Load Handling System Truck, eight metric tonnes / 8.8-ton [ 5 ] NSN 2320-01-557-4546
Ukraine currently operates 16 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, donated by the United States. HIMARS consists of a medium-sized tactical truck that can carry up to six 227 ...