130 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)

INVESTMENT COMPONENT Modernization MISSION M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System PROGRAM STATUS To provide early entry and contingency (MLRS) that it replaces. The M142 • 1QFY09: Full-rate production IV Recapitalization forces with highly lethal, responsive, provides responsive, highly accurate, contract award and extremely lethal surface-to- • 2QFY09: Fielded 1st Battalion, 94th Maintenance and precise long-range rocket and surface rocket and missile fires 15 to Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Fires missile fires that defeat point and area 300 kilometers. HIMARS can fire all Brigade, the seventh battalion to be targets in both urban/complex and open current and planned suites of MLRS fielded terrain, with minimal collateral damage, munitions, including Army Tactical • 3QFY09: Fielded 3rd Battalion, via a highly mobile and deployable Missile System missiles and guided 197th Field Artillery Regiment, multiple launch system. MLRS rockets. HIMARS carries 197th Fires Brigade, the eighth either six rockets or one missile, is battalion fielded DESCRIPTION self-loading and self-locating, and is The M142 High Mobility Artillery operated by a three-man crew protected PROJECTED ACTIVITIES Rocket System (HIMARS) is a wheeled during firings in either a reinforced • Continue fielding to active and artillery system that provides close- man-rated cab or an armored cab. It reserve components and long-range precision rocket and operates within the MLRS command, • Continue retrofit of Increased Crew missile fire support for Army and control, and communications structure. Protection Armored Cab to fleet Marine early-entry expeditionary • Begin fielding to Foreign Military forces, contingency forces, and modular SYSTEM INTERDEPENDENCIES Sales customers fire support brigades supporting Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles • Provide support to fielded units in Brigade Combat Teams. The combat- (FMTV) chassis, Advanced Field combat proven HIMARS is rapidly deployable Artillery Tactical Data System via C-130 and operates in all weather (AFATDS) and visibility conditions. HIMARS is mounted on a five-ton modified Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles chassis. The wheeled chassis allows for faster road movement and lower operating costs, and requires far fewer strategic airlifts (via C-5 or C-17) to transport a firing battery than the current tracked

ACQUISITION PHASE Technology Development Engineering & Manufacturing Development Production & Deployment Operations & Support

UNITED STATES ARMY 131

High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)

FOREIGN MILITARY SALES United Arab Emirates, Singapore

CONTRACTORS Prime and launcher: Lockheed Martin (Dallas, TX; Camden, AR) Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles: BAE Systems (Sealy, TX) Improved Weapons Interface Unit: Harris Corp. (Melbourne, FL) Position Navigation Unit: L-3 Communications Space & Navigation (Budd Lake, NJ) Hydraulic pump and motor: Vickers (Jackson, MS)

WEAPON SYSTEMS 2010