Army Eyes Unmanned Launcher Trucks Able To Fire Missiles Loaded With Swarming Munitions
This combination would enable a relatively small number of personnel to deliver swarms of drones that could wreak havoc, including on air defenses.
By Joseph Trevithick January 27, 2021
The U.S. Army is interested in the idea of a fleet of unmanned trucks carrying launchers based on the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, that would be capable of firing the now-in-development Precision Strike Missile, or PrSMs, and other future long-range surface-to-surface missiles. The service also wants to explore proposals for loading those PrSMs, and other missiles, with submunitions that can work together as a networked swarm.
The Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium (AMTC) outlined the Army's interest in these concepts in a call for white papers earlier this month. AMTC is a quasi-public entity that operates through the Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command's Aviation and Missile Center with a focus on using smaller, non-traditional contracts to rapidly explore and even prototype novel aviation and missile technologies.
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