Lockheed Martin Precision Munitions Complete Reliability Tests

Category: Defence Industry

DALLAS -- Lockheed Martin’s Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) and Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary munitions recently underwent successful stockpile reliability tests. All rockets were launched from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

The tests included eight GMLRS rockets that were conditioned at hot and ambient temperatures. The ATACMS Unitary missile, which was the current production configuration, was conditioned hot for the test. The HIMARS launcher can fire ATACMS and GMLRS munitions ranging between 15km and 300km.

The flight tests, which were part of the U.S. Army’s tactical munitions reliability program, were conducted using simulated targets. Soldiers were inside the HIMARS’ Improved Armored Cab, where they initiated the launches.

“Lockheed Martin’s HIMARS, ATACMS and GMLRS precision fire solutions provide critical, quick-strike capabilities to U.S. and allied forces worldwide,” said Ken Musculus, vice president of tactical missiles at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control.

In service since 2005, HIMARS brings MLRS firepower to a wheeled chassis. It carries a single six-pack of rockets or one ATACMS missile, and can launch the entire MLRS family of munitions. It is C-130-transportable and can be deployed into areas previously inaccessible to heavier launchers.

Lockheed Martin
09.11.2015

Lockheed Martin Autonomous Driving System Tops 55,000 Miles in Extended Army Testing
30.11.2017

SAAB Chosen As Sub-Contractor For The Ajax Virtual Crew Turret Trainer
14.10.2017

General Dynamics Land Systems–UK begins AJAX Manned Live Firing Phase of Programme, Using CTAI 40mm Cannon
18.09.2017

General Dynamics Land Systems–UK Will Deliver Innovative State-of-the-art Training Solutions for the AJAX Programme
14.09.2017

Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin Electro-Optical Systems

Lockheed Martin Vought Systtems Corporation

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control

Lockheed Martin UK - LMUK

M142 HIMARS (Multiple rocket launcher)