HIMARS
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HIMARS
(military) Acronym of High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, a light multiple rocket launcher.
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Another part of the exercise is to provide airlift support for ground forces and work with the U.S. Marine Corps in a live fire exercise with utilizing the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as a HIMARS.
HIMARS weights 24,000 lbs, has a crew of three, and first saw combat in Afghanistan where it was deemed effective at providing rapid, short to long range (up to about 200 miles with the MGM-142) fire support.
The sale would include 288 AMRAAM C-7 missiles. citation The US Army has test fired the SL-AMRAAM from a HIMARS artillery rocket launcher as a common launcher, as part of a move to switch to a larger and more survivable launch platform.
The team of two launchers were able to get their HIMARS safely on and off the C-17.
NMESIS uses the Marines’ High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) on the chassis of a remotely operated version of the Army’s Oshkosh-built Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, loaded with a Kongsberg/Raytheon Naval Strike Missile.
The Taliban group in Afghanistan reacted to the deadly HIMARS artillery strike in southern Helmand province, as usual, claiming that no leader or militant of the group has been killed or wounded in the strike.