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The United States Army has announced it has accepted the first initial delivery of its next-generation Long Range Precision Fires missile.
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The Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) is the US Army’s next-generation Long Range Precision Fires weapons platform, designed to be launched from the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and M270A2 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems. It is capable of neutralising targets at standoffs greater than 400 kilometres.
This first successful delivery incorporates the Precision Strike Missile Increment 1 Early Operational Capability missiles following the successful production qualification testing in November at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
Doug Bush, Assistant Secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, said: “The Precision Strike Missile will provide Joint Force commanders with a 24/7, all-weather capability that will counter the enemy’s ability to conduct combat maneuver and air defence operations.”
This new surface-to-surface weapon system will deliver enhanced capabilities to attack, neutralise, suppress and destroy targets using missile-delivered indirect fires.
Bush added: “The rapid development and delivery of this capability is a prime example of the Army’s aggressive use of new acquisition authorities from Congress that allow us to move at much greater speed to get improved equipment to soldiers.”
PrSM is designed to provide the Joint Force Commander with increased range, lethality, survivability and missile load out. This combination of enhanced capabilities is critical to the successful execution of fires in support of combined Joint All-Domain Operations.
Earlier this year, it was announced that Australian Defence Force gunners will begin training in the US next year in preparations for its new HIMARS regiment.
Australia will base its first High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launcher unit, 14 regiments, out of Puckapunyal in central Victoria, and gunners will undertake training at the US Artillery School in Oklahoma as early as next year.
The initial battery will field the first of 20 recently purchased HIMARS to be delivered in 2025. Initially, one troop of four HIMARS is expected to operate, with the rest used for training, maintenance, and certification. This will expand to a battery of three troops in 2027.
