Army Tactical Missile Systems:
The United States recently confirmed providing long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to Ukraine to aid its war effort against Russia.
- Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) is a conventional surface-to-surface artillery weapon system capable of striking targets well beyond the range of existing Army cannons, rockets and other missiles.
- It is manufactured by the US defense company Lockheed Martin.
- It is also designated M39 by the US Army, and its Department of Defence (DoD) designation isMGM-140.
- It first saw use during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
- It’s known operators other than the US are Bahrain, Greece, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Arab Emirates.
- It is 24/7, all-weather, surface-to-surface, inertially guided ballistic missile.
- It is single-stage, solid propellant with a range of about 190 miles (305 km).
- They are fired from the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) The MLRS can fire 12 surface-to-surface missiles in less than a minute.
- It has the ability to carry cluster munitions, which destroy a targeted area by releasing hundreds of bomblets instead of a single warhead.
