A classified anti ship missile system was rapidly developed for US Marines HIMARS

[F-22Raptor]

 

[F-22Raptor]

This effort was developed under the Office of Secretary of Defense Rapid Prototyping Programs.

 

[merzifonlu]

As expected...

 

[Netherbird]

This capability was demonstrated a few years back during exercise Dawn Blitz 2017 when USS Anchorage hosted a HIMARS launcher which hit a floating target 43 miles away using a GMLRS rocket, foreshadowing US forays into ASBM capabilities.

During RIMPAC 2018 USS Racine (LST-1191) was engaged by shore launched HIMARS rockets from 63 miles away, demonstrating the extended range of the new Tail-Guided GMLRS rocket with a range of +90 miles.

USS Racine was hit not only with HIMARS rockets but also Japanese Type 12 AShMs, Naval Strike Missiles of the US Army, several Harpoon missiles and was finished off with a MK48 torpedo.

This is what a GMLRS rocket looks like when it hits a ship.

The accuracy of the new tail-controlled GMLRS rockets is insane! They hit near vertically within inches, not meters, of their target.

https://www.army.mil/article/207357...trates_near_vertical_impact_at_extended_range

 

[Mithridates]

lol while certain members were mocking Iranian ASBMs, looks like their god, the US also is building them.