13 May 2021

US Army PrSM test flight pushes 400 km range

by Ashley Roque

Lockheed Martin is billing the latest flight test of a US Army’s Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) prototype as a ’success’, after it flew about 400 km to a target site at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on 12 May.

The programme is in the Enhanced Technical Maturation and Risk Reduction (ETMRR) phase under which the company is tasked with producing four missiles that will be used in three separate flight test events. This most recent flight test is the first to happen during this phase, with an M142 High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) used to launch the weapon.

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