Marines deploy more rockets to Asia with new HIMARS battery
By Philip Athey
Feb 2, 11:20 AM
At the end of 2021 the Marine Corps added a second High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, battery to the Okinawa, Japan, based 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines ― doubling the number of Marine rockets deployed in Asia.
The Corps is planning to increase the number of active duty rocket batteries it fields as it hopes to modernize for a potential future conflict with a near-peer threat like China.
The Corps confirmed that in 2021 it added two HIMARS batteries to the active duty force, one in Japan and one with the Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, based 1st Battalion, 10th Marines.
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