The High Mobility Artillery Rocket System will be the launcher for a long-range precision fires munition, which has been deemed critical for multidomain operations. (Senior Airman Isaac Johnson/U.S. Air Force)
Breaking Defense: Army Seeks New Mid-Range Missile Prototype By 2023
Meant to target Chinese warships and Russia’s rear bases, the new intermediate-range missile will fill the gap between the 500+ km PrSM and the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon.
WASHINGTON: Army wargames against Russia and China found a major gap in the service’s planned arsenal of long-range precision weapons, a gap it now plans to fill with a new intermediate-range missile that could fly as far as 2,000 miles. To speed development, the weapon will probably be derived from a missile already used by another service, such as the famous Tomahawk.
“[Navy] SM-6s and Tomahawks, that’s a capability I can see us as having in the future,” the Army Chief of Staff, Gen. James McConville, told a DefenseOne webcast this morning. “We are working that, [and] the Marine Corps is doing the same thing. If you don’t have to develop your own system, if you already have something that already works… it’s in all of our interest to go ahead and pursue those.”
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Update: For the US Army’s fires capability, 2023 is the year that will change everything (Defense News)
WNU Editor: I hope these missiles are not as expensive as the Tomahawk missile (i.e. $1.87 million) .... Tomahawk (missile) (Wikipedia).
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