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⚙️ MLRS and the UK
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The Future Artillery Conference this week released new information on the UK's rocket artillery programmes as well as provided more information we can intuit from.
An M270, HIMARS and PULS thread 🧵
#artillery #M270 #PrSM #LPS
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The Future Artillery Conference this week released new information on the UK's rocket artillery programmes as well as provided more information we can intuit from.
An M270, HIMARS and PULS thread 🧵
#artillery #M270 #PrSM #LPS
⚙️ As well as 155mm and 105mm artillery replacement programmes, both considered Close Support Fires, the UK has three funded Deep Fires programmes originating in work for Deep Fires Rocket System, Land Precision Strike and the Weapons Sector Research Framework.
⚙️ The first area delivering is re-engineering existing UK M270B1 chassis in three ways to "zero-hour" the fleet life and enable integration of future munitions.
🔴 Overhaul of all automotives
🔵 Entirely new, larger cab
🟢 Overhaul of launch system with new FCS
🔴 Overhaul of all automotives
🔵 Entirely new, larger cab
🟢 Overhaul of launch system with new FCS
Common Launcher configuration with AIM-120 AMRAAM in MFOM pod.
“P44 - a 7-inch diameter 220-pound missile with an effective range from zero to more than 70 kilometers.. 10 P44s can be packaged into MLRS rocket pod.. The four-mode P44 has GPS-aided inertial guidance carries a mature tri-mode seeker with semi-active laser, IIR & MMW radar”
