SG new GPS guided Himars 5 m accuracy in 70 km range
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Himars alone will not change the landscape of war.U need good sensors and shooters
and good command and control sys to combine all stuff together.
In today ST,(nvm u dunt believe) ,US army Chief of Field Artillery, BG Ross Ridge, told reporters " not too many militaries in the world can pull off such sophisticated and complex operations...SG is certanily in the world's top 10 militaries."
U may wander why SG wait so long to buy mutlipe launchers rocket ,after few years than MY.
Political concern is one factor.SG is always latter than MY to buy similiar platforms ,like MLRS, subs, jet fighters.
Technology is more important. there is no point to buy unguided MLRS which , i assume MY's unguided, MY bought fr Brazil.if u fire unguided, u just go back to WW2 era!!
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SG Himars---
With GPS assisted, the claimed accuracy of 5 meter in range 70 km,
deployment less than 5 mins,reload all rocket rubes in 10 mins
(artillery take 7 mins to emerge from camouflage and fire at targets)
speed almost 100km /h,
length --7 m,
wt--15,900 kg with rockets
the following is quoted fr ST.
The US-made M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or Himars, was fired for the first time as part of the Forging Sabre war games being carried out in the rugged scrublands of Fort Sill in Oklahoma, in the United States. -- ST PHOTO: BRYAN VAN DER BEEK
FORT SILL (Oklahoma) - A NEW rocket artillery weapon system acquired by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) to give its ground troops greater reach and firepower went into action on Tuesday.
The US-made M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or Himars, was fired for the first time as part of the Forging Sabre war games being carried out in the rugged scrublands of Fort Sill in Oklahoma, in the United States.
The SAF is training on US-supplied hardware for now, and will take delivery of the first of 18 Himars it purchased by the middle of next year.
Tuesday's live-firing exercise comes eight months after troops from the 23rd Battalion Singapore Artillery (23 SA) first started training on the new weapon.
Mounted on a truck are six rockets, with each warhead packing 644 armour-piercing bomblets. Firing a salvo of all six rockets would rain about 3,800 bomblets over targets 70km away.
Guided by a Global Positioning System, the rockets are more accurate and powerful than the current big guns in the SAF - the 155mm artillery guns and 120mm mortars.
SAF tests new HimarsRead the full report in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.18 Nov 2009
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whnKoHzB8CU&feature=related
HIMARS is C-130 transportable and can be deployed into areas previously inaccessible to heavier launchers.
I think Himars is mainly for anti-armoured
Mounted on a truck are six rockets, with each warhead packing 644 armour-piercing bomblets. Firing a salvo of all six rockets would rain about 3,800 bomblets over targets 70km away.
Can ST Eng make the bomblets in Himars,when ST can make bomblets in 155 rounds?.
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SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGIES ENGINEERING AT IDEX 2003
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155 MM CARGO ROUND
􀂃 The 155 mm Hollow Base and Base Bleed Cargo Round are Extended Range, Improved Conventional Munition carrying dual -purpose bomblets, each with a mechanical self destruct fuze"
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I don't need so many ex forging saber threads here. And jolly well make sure your language is neutral or the other thrread will cease to exist too.