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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 Himars
Read the full report in Wednesday's edition of The
Straits Times.18 Nov 2009
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