The US Army is studying the possibility of increasing the range of Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) almost three times — from the current 500 kilometers to 1,600 kilometers, according to Breaking Defense.
According to the publication, in the future, the weapon can receive improved engines that, without increasing the size of the rocket, will allow it to be launched from combat vehicles of the long-range multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). Breaking Defense recalls that the PrSM will initially enter service in 2023.
In December 2019, Brigadier General John Rafferty said that in the European theater of hypothetical military operations, the PrSM surface-to-surface missile being developed for the US Army will become a "killer" of Russian air defense systems (for example, the S-400 Triumph), while in the Pacific Ocean, Chinese warships will become the target of weapons.
In November 2020, Forbes magazine reported that as part of training maneuvers, the US military relocated two HIMARS combat vehicles to Romania, after which they fired several missiles into the air and returned the installations to Germany.
According to the publication Defense News, currently the maximum range of the PrSM is 499 kilometers, but this figure can be increased to 550 kilometers, since the United States and Russia are not bound by the Treaty on Short-and Medium-Range Missiles (DRMSD).
Ivan Potapov
