Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System/Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Alternative Warhead (GMLRS/GMLRS AW)

Abstract

The mission of the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System/Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Alternative Warhead (GMLRS/GMLRS AW) is to attack/neutralize/suppress/destroy targets using indirect precision fires. GMLRS provides Field Artillery units with medium- and long-range (70+ kilometers (Km)) fires while supporting brigade, division, corps, army, theater, Joint/Coalition Forces, and Marine Air-Ground Task Forces in full, limited, or expeditionary operations. GMLRS rocket is a solid propellant artillery rocket deployed from the M270A1 and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System mobile launch vehicles. GMLRS/GMLRS AW uses an Inertial Measuring Unit with Global Positioning System assistance to guide the rocket to a specific point to deliver effects on target. GMLRS/GMLRS AW is transported and fired in a Rocket Pod Container that consists of six rockets. GMLRS family of munitions consists of three increments: Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition (DPICM), Unitary (U), and Alternative Warhead (AW).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1019443

Entities

People

  • James Mills

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Army Procurement
  • Artillery
  • Artillery Rockets
  • Artillery Units
  • Contracts
  • Cost Estimates
  • Engineering
  • Insensitive Explosives
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Procurement
  • Multiple Launch Rocket System
  • Munitions
  • Procurement
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unexploded Ammunition
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Military Science
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space