US Army plans four PrSM test shots in 2021

摘要

The US Army plans to conduct a series of four test shots with Lockheed Martin's Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) prototype this year The first event was due to occur in mid-May at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, before the final two are fired as part of Project Convergence 2021, accord ing to Brigadier General John Rafferty, head of the US Army's Long-Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team. The effort to replace Lockheed Martin's MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) with a weapon that has a range of greater than 500 km is in the Enhanced Technical Maturation and Risk Reduction (ETMRR) phase. For this stage of work, the company is under contract to produce four PrSMs.