US Army unveils precision strike missiles, revolutionizing long-range engagement
The U.S. Army has officially introduced the first Precision
Strike Missiles (PrSM) into its arsenal, replacing the aging ATACMS, the U.S.
Army's press service announced on Dec. 8.
The delivery of these highly accurate long-range missiles
follows their successful testing in November at the White Sands testing range in New Mexico.
PrSM represents a new generation of ballistic missiles.
Launched from highly mobile artillery rocket systems M142 and M270A2 Multiple
Launch Rocket Systems, they can engage targets at distances
exceeding 400 kilometers.
"The Precision Strike Missile will provide the Joint Force commanders with a 24/7 ability to counter enemy maneuver and air defenses in any weather," stated Doug Bush, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology.
He added that the rapid development
and deployment of this capability serve as a "shining example" of the U.S. Army's aggressive use of new procurement authorities granted by the U.S.
Congress to swiftly acquire enhanced equipment for American soldiers.
The United States is to replace ATACMS missiles with PrSM,
freeing up the ATACMS for other potential use, Colonel Roman Svytan, a retired
Ukrainian Armed Forces officer and pilot instructor, previously noted in an
interview with NV. He mentioned that the U.S. currently has over three thousand ATACMS in storage.
According to reports, Ukraine received "less than a
dozen" ATACMS missiles from the United States, but was assured that
it would continue to receive ATACMS missiles "on a regular
basis."
The Ukrainian Armed Forces successfully used ATACMS to target airfields
in the occupied cities of Berdyansk and Luhansk on the night of Oct. 17. Later,
Special Operations Forces disclosed that nine helicopters and specialized
military equipment were destroyed, along with ammunition depots.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Ukraine's successful
strikes, marking the first use of U.S. ATACMS missiles with cassette (cluster bomb) warheads. Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii
Zaluzhnyi published a video of the first launch.
Later, Russian propagandists claimed there had been another ATACMS attack on
Luhansk, and the UK weekly news magazine the Economist reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched
missiles at the occupied Crimea for the first time on Oct. 30.
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