US marines have tested the missile complex HIMARS from the ship

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On the website of the Naval Institute of the United States Navy information was published that the Marine Corps had tested the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system for the possibility of firing from a ship.

The M142 HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) is a highly mobile tactical-missile artillery system. It was created at the end of 90's by Lockheed Martin Corporation in partnership with BAE Systems and is serially produced from 2003. HIMARS was developed on the basis of an FMTV (Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles) chassis weighing 5 tons. The basic ammunition for M142 are MLRS missiles (М26, GMLRS, AT-2 and others) with a range of up to 70 km.



US marines have tested the missile complex HIMARS from the ship


The test results should have provided an answer to the question of whether HIMARS can hit targets with guided missiles when fired from a board ship. As a target, an anti-aircraft defense system was selected, located on an island located at a distance of 70 km from the launch point. According to the military command, the target was successfully destroyed.

The rocket was launched from the deck of the amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD-23) of the San Antonio type (the vehicle with the rocket launcher was located on the ship’s helipad). The command of the US Marine Corps indicates that previously the Marines needed to land on the shore, equip firing points, and only after that use rocket artillery, but now they will be able to destroy targets along the way to them, reports "Warspot".

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  1. +6
    25 October 2017 17: 58
    I saw something like that among Koreans. And everyone was laughing at them.

    There was artillery barge .....
    1. +1
      25 October 2017 18: 01
      Quote: DEZINTO
      I saw something like that among Koreans. And everyone was laughing at them.


      Great floating Katyusha.
    2. +4
      25 October 2017 18: 01
      According to the props of heroism, you don’t need to pull it. And if this "props" gives a bream in response?
      Quote: DEZINTO
      I saw something like that among Koreans. And everyone was laughing at them.
      1. +4
        25 October 2017 18: 11
        Nifiga did not understand the humor! The Marines (!!!) even hit the ReeSami from the ship, even hit (?). But what, ship missiles can’t do this? April 1st passed, what dope on the horizon?
        1. +4
          25 October 2017 18: 22
          Quote: oldseaman1957
          Nifiga did not understand the humor! The Marines (!!!) even hit the ReeSami from the ship, even hit (?). But what, ship missiles can’t do this? April 1st passed, what dope on the horizon?

          there is only one logical conclusion - corrected shells were checked, but not a gyroscope, they were screwed onto a land product
          1. +1
            25 October 2017 20: 34
            And if a gyroscope? Although probably not, it will be expensive.
            1. +4
              25 October 2017 20: 53
              Quote: Corporal
              And if a gyroscope? Although probably not, it will be expensive.

              why Katyusha gyro? - go and shoot, well, as if there are other cars for this occupation, which is more useful, but if the corrected x is to test it, they are suddenly afraid of flying out of the sector
              1. +3
                25 October 2017 21: 07
                Quote: poquello
                if the corrected x is to experience it - they are suddenly afraid of flying out of the sector

                Yes, it’s correctable, it seems like it doesn’t matter the launch moment, the development of the course already in flight begins. Or not? what
                1. +3
                  25 October 2017 21: 22
                  Quote: Corporal
                  Quote: poquello
                  if the corrected x is to experience it - they are suddenly afraid of flying out of the sector

                  Yes, it’s correctable, it seems like it doesn’t matter the launch moment, the development of the course already in flight begins. Or not? what

                  and this is what correction and at what stage, maybe they are flying on the march in the direction of the finger)
      2. +5
        25 October 2017 18: 49
        Quote: 210ox
        According to the props of heroism, you don’t need to pull it. And if this "props" gives a bream in response?
        Quote: DEZINTO
        I saw something like that among Koreans. And everyone was laughing at them.

        but do the marines have no support ships? to suppress coastal batteries? or are they with a mustache?
        1. +7
          25 October 2017 19: 05
          Quote: Partyzan
          but do the marines have no support ships? to suppress coastal batteries? or are they with a mustache?

          For the "Papuans" designed, cheap and cheerful.
          RCC (or something else) aboard from such a distance can quickly be shlopotat.
          1. +4
            25 October 2017 19: 16
            Quote: Deadush
            For the "Papuans" designed, cheap and cheerful.

            and then then got into a fool? Like the Papuans do not look like? recourse
    3. +3
      25 October 2017 18: 18
      Some kind of degradation is observed, from electromagnetic guns we switched to multiple launch rocket systems. And if you drive a tank onto the deck and shoot, will there be an artillery ship? I wonder how much money was allocated from the budget for this program?
      1. +7
        25 October 2017 19: 10
        Quote: Lavrenty Pavlovich
        The missile was launched from the deck of the USS Anchorage (LPD-23) landing transport dock type San Antonio

        The missile was launched from the deck of the USS Anchorage (LPD-23) landing transport dock type San Antonio

        Type mobile base for remote exposure.
        They will place dozens of little pukaloks with missiles and cannons and will fire without landing. The risk is minimal, the impact is maximum ... especially if in the "banana republic" mock. Yankers on go money began to consider, develop economical options.
    4. +6
      25 October 2017 18: 23
      Quote: DEZINTO
      ... I saw something like that among Koreans. And everyone was laughing at them ...

      Americans from the Koreans became infected. Constant heartburn on the Korean peninsula makes itself felt.
      Just now neighing Nizhzzya - these are the warriors of the "exclusive nation" ...
      But seriously, then nothing but bewilderment this show does not cause. Good marines who are afraid to land on the coast are just sailors in this case ...
      Yes, and shooting HIMARS from the side of transport is rather weak - let them fall from the Abrams from the deck, which is really there if you are afraid to land on the coast lol
    5. +5
      25 October 2017 19: 37
      Quote: DEZINTO
      I saw something like that among Koreans. And everyone was laughing at them.
      There was artillery barge .....

      This is not Korea, but China - an ersatz gunboat to support the landing during the most dangerous period of the landing operation: between the landing of the first echelon and the landing of artillery. Since it is too expensive to build a sufficient number of specialized fire support ships for landing operations for only 2-3 operations, the Chinese decided to try the good old way of mobilizing and arming ships.

      1. +3
        26 October 2017 09: 51
        And how to get to the target after such a volley? the robust should swing this barge ... Maybe it is better to try recoilless options? ...
        1. 0
          26 October 2017 14: 17
          Quote: raw174
          And how to get to the target after such a volley? the robust should swing this barge ... Maybe it is better to try recoilless options? ...

          And the Chinese also tried it - but not the recoil, but the MLRS:
  2. +1
    25 October 2017 18: 00
    what's the question? will anything hit anything?
    1. +3
      25 October 2017 18: 07
      Quote: poquello
      what's the question? will anything hit anything?

      The test results should have provided an answer to the question of whether HIMARS can hit targets with guided missiles when fired from a board ship.
      hi
      1. +1
        25 October 2017 18: 16
        Quote: san4es
        Quote: poquello
        what's the question? will anything hit anything?

        The test results should have provided an answer to the question of whether HIMARS can hit targets with guided missiles when fired from a board ship.
        hi

        Duc glass, two roll and the bottles
        1. +8
          25 October 2017 18: 21
          Quote: poquello
          ... Duc glass, two roll and the bottles

          drinks
    2. +3
      25 October 2017 18: 15
      what's the question? will anything hit anything?

      Have you even read the article to the end ..?
      According to the military command, the target was successfully destroyed.
      1. +2
        25 October 2017 19: 03
        Quote: igorj 51
        what's the question? will anything hit anything?

        Have you even read the article to the end ..?
        According to the military command, the target was successfully destroyed.

        and you rolled a glass?
  3. +2
    25 October 2017 18: 01
    a car with a rocket launcher is located on the helipad of the ship

    They would also tell how long they placed the installation on the helipad and what had to be done for this.
    1. +3
      25 October 2017 18: 19
      Quote: Vladimir16
      They would also tell how long they placed the installation on the helipad and what had to be done for this.

      Nevertheless, they definitely had to do some work. At least in the field of programming. And perhaps in the hardware
      1. +2
        25 October 2017 19: 10
        Quote: Spade
        Nevertheless, they definitely had to do some work.

        and where they will go further, will complete the hoverboard to the boarding knife
        1. +1
          25 October 2017 19: 37
          Quote: poquello
          and where they will go further, will complete the hoverboard to the boarding knife


          Looking at the trends of unification, we can assume that they tested the capabilities of missiles and guidance systems for subsequent use as part of the ship’s armament. It's written:

          The test results should have provided an answer to the question of whether HIMARS can hit targets with guided missiles when fired from a board ship.
          1. +1
            26 October 2017 05: 21
            fool Yes, on what "pisinus"? Do they have factories that riveted tamogavks "like a sausage" closed or did the vaunted aircraft get in? Mattresses from year to year push against the suppression of any enemy with a "long hand", so what the hell is this "craft for the poor."
            1. +3
              26 October 2017 09: 57
              Quote: Mih1974
              Yes, on what "pisinus"?

              They are not fools, since they are testing, then it is necessary. They are going on a hike to the shores of the next banana republic, with a native army of archers, so what for the Kyrgyz Republic and the air wing to drag there, on the approaches the shore will be plowed and landed ... Cheap and cheerful. They want to get away from excess spending.
        2. +1
          25 October 2017 19: 38
          Quote: poquello
          and where they will go further, will complete the hoverboard to the boarding knife

          1. +1
            25 October 2017 19: 54
            Quote: Spade
            Quote: poquello
            and where they will go further, will complete the hoverboard to the boarding knife


            I remembered a children's joke, "learn to piss when pitching"
            1. +2
              25 October 2017 19: 59
              Building ships for one operation is painfully expensive. So they think how to get out
              1. +1
                25 October 2017 20: 04
                Quote: Spade
                Building ships for one operation is painfully expensive. So they think how to get out

                maybe the great and all-conquering aircraft carriers probably the Chinese do not let
                1. 0
                  25 October 2017 21: 10
                  I'm talking about the Chinese and Taiwan. They seem to have no more large-scale landing operations planned.
                  1. +1
                    25 October 2017 21: 55
                    Quote: Spade
                    I'm talking about the Chinese and Taiwan. They seem to have no more large-scale landing operations planned.

                    not well, everything is clear there, anyhow
              2. 0
                26 October 2017 05: 23
                Excuse me about whom? If you're talking about Koreans or Chinese, then yes, but for them it’s not worth it anymore because ships rivet more than anyone else in the world (two first places in the world in shipbuilding).
                But the Americans need THIS, for they have more than 60 "arlik berks" full of CDs to the eyeballs.
  4. +4
    25 October 2017 18: 03
    They think that they will be allowed to approach the Crimea at 70 km? .... Navels will not untie?
    1. +1
      25 October 2017 18: 11
      Quote: assa67
      They think that they will be allowed to approach the Crimea at 70 km? .... Navels will not untie?

      No, of course, it’s not about Crimea ... So they work out the assault in Korea ...
      1. +4
        25 October 2017 18: 19
        Korea was implied by itself .... Yes ... but these gavriks always have far-reaching plans
    2. +2
      25 October 2017 18: 18
      They think that they will be allowed to approach the Crimea at 70 km? .... Navels will not untie?

      And who will not give them ..? 70 km are international, neutral waters. Anyone can walk there. Territorial waters begin 12 nautical miles from the coast, which is 22,2 km from the coast.
      1. +2
        26 October 2017 10: 02
        Quote: igorj 51
        And who will not give them ..?

        It means they will not let you act aggressively. You can certainly put on a civilian ship, but how long will it last after a volley? ..
        1. +1
          26 October 2017 10: 26
          It means they will not let you act aggressively

          C'mon ... Until now, Americans everywhere and always act extremely aggressively and that, someone at least once prevented them from acting aggressively ..? I don’t even remember such a case ...
          1. +2
            26 October 2017 12: 20
            Quote: igorj 51
            C'mon ... Until now, Americans everywhere and always act extremely aggressively and that, someone at least once prevented them from acting aggressively ..?

            We are talking about aggression in the Crimea, on the territory of the Russian Federation, Russia will not be silent, will not tolerate direct aggression ...
  5. +1
    25 October 2017 18: 07
    This only confirms the common truth that everything is new, it is well forgotten old! negative
    1. +7
      25 October 2017 19: 13
      Quote: Herkulesich
      This only confirms the common truth that everything is new, it is well forgotten old! negative

      Our still in WWII "Katyusha" on boats and ships put.
      1. +1
        25 October 2017 20: 08
        Quote: Deadush
        Our still in WWII "Katyusha" on boats and ships put.

        What are cars right?
        1. +6
          25 October 2017 21: 01
          Quote: poquello
          What are cars right?

          no wagons Yes laughing
          1. +1
            25 October 2017 21: 07
            Quote: Deadush
            Quote: poquello
            What are cars right?

            no wagons Yes laughing

            Well, the boat in the car is still understandable, but the car in the boat is already a dry cargo ship
            1. +7
              25 October 2017 21: 31
              Quote: poquello
              Well, the boat in the car is still understandable, but the car in the boat is already a dry cargo ship

              Norm, ours and not that know how ... especially when needed.
              1. +1
                25 October 2017 21: 52
                Quote: Deadush
                Quote: poquello
                Well, the boat in the car is still understandable, but the car in the boat is already a dry cargo ship

                Norm, ours and not that know how ... especially when needed.

                they know how, they know how, maybe they did put a launcher, and this is a slightly different topic, they put launchers on planes before the Second World War
      2. +3
        25 October 2017 20: 52
        Actually, as part of the armament of the landing ship ... Russian ... there is a numbed Grad. And with these RSOs, it’s not clear .. Americans will not move towards the enemy until everything is flooded with molten metal. Che .. even the overwhelming copter to support the marines is not? .. even does not look like ami yusei ..
  6. +1
    25 October 2017 18: 13
    Cheap and easy answer to Zumwalt
    1. +2
      25 October 2017 18: 18
      Cheap deck repair after launches?
      1. +2
        25 October 2017 19: 49
        Quote: Sergey Fomenko
        Cheap deck repair after launches?

        For the price of Zumwalt?
        Even if after starting up not only repairing, but also covering with gold leaf, it will still be more profitable. 8)))
  7. 0
    25 October 2017 18: 22
    It turns out all ingenious, simple and cheap .......
    1. +1
      25 October 2017 18: 45
      On our Bison actually from the very beginning there are 2 degrees
  8. +3
    25 October 2017 18: 38
    What's the catch? Shouldn't she have fired? The running ship is still not Formula 1 ... Again, probably the astronomical amount spent / sawed on the tests of this garbage? And why wouldn’t it be more powerful for all their General Staff to gather around the land mine, and not to shake it with a golden hammer, in order to find out the interaction of gold and a land mine? The world would become cleaner and kinder!
  9. 0
    25 October 2017 18: 41
    Quote: Sergey Fomenko
    Cheap deck repair after launches?

    And they will find out when they carry out the following tests: “Repairing the deck after a healthy breeze”, well, if Congress approves, but I think it will, the money will be returned by kickbacks ...
  10. 0
    25 October 2017 18: 45
    Quote: Vladimir16
    a car with a rocket launcher is located on the helipad of the ship

    They would also tell how long they placed the installation on the helipad and what had to be done for this.

    These can! Well, they made such a revolution in military science with these tests !!! Afraid of losing ships near Korea? Loaded on a barge, camouflaged in coal and into battle!
  11. +1
    25 October 2017 19: 35
    The test results were to answer the question of whether HIMARS can hit targets with guided missiles when firing from a board of a going ship

    For one, they will prove to the command that the landing runway is not intended for fire.
    1. +2
      25 October 2017 19: 46
      Ship is expensive. And in terms of the cost of construction, and in terms of its content.
      And some container ship will pay off in N years, and it will begin to bring profit. At the same time, land-based tactical missile launchers located on it are quite capable of supporting the landing.
      1. +1
        25 October 2017 20: 02
        Quote: Spade
        Ship is expensive. And in terms of the cost of construction, and in terms of its content.
        And some container ship will pay off in N years, and it will begin to bring profit. At the same time, land-based tactical missile launchers located on it are quite capable of supporting the landing.

        The problem is, let's say, boldly not in the launch site, but in the missile control and orientation system. And the runway is expensive and not designed for this. This is another advertising action, no more
        1. +1
          25 October 2017 21: 15
          Quote: APASUS
          A runway is expensive and not designed for this

          It is intended for harder use. For example, to receive and send “Harriers”, armed with the ILC
          1. 0
            25 October 2017 21: 45
            Quote: Spade
            It is intended for harder use. For example, to receive and send “Harriers”, armed with the ILC

            Not just the Harriers, but not all classes of helicopters should take off from this deck, you are just interested in English sources of what this ship is. An expensive test
            1. 0
              25 October 2017 22: 49
              Quote: APASUS
              Not just the Harriers, but not all classes of helicopters should take off from this deck, you are just interested in English sources

              It’s just these English sources that indicate that the flight deck of the San Antonio class ships is also intended for receiving and taking off Harriers from it
              1. 0
                26 October 2017 17: 05
                Quote: Spade
                It’s just these English sources that indicate that the flight deck of the San Antonio class ships is also intended for receiving and taking off Harriers from it

                This ship was specially redone for NASA's Orion program, although of course, why not hammer in nails with a microscope, you can!
  12. +4
    25 October 2017 20: 21
    The fact of the matter is that the Marine Corps in the United States is a completely separate type of troops, loosely connected with land explorers, and the Navy too. At least in the field of armaments - it is completely independent, and, apparently, the test data of the weapons of the land investigators are purely in order to decide whether it should be purchased for the ILC and its field of application.
    And, of course, all this is past the ticket office, if suddenly there will be a “Ball” or “Bastion” on the shore - they will drown the trough with the marines and this miracle machine so quickly that those “mother” will not have time to shout.
    1. 0
      26 October 2017 05: 35
      “And what?” That America is waging wars with certain types of troops, or all the same they are ALL subordinate to a single command that throws “into battle” what it decides or is available. That is, this whole idea and your words imply that "all other types of US troops were covered with a copper basin." No sick imagination and even vodka can tell me such a situation, and moreover, after such losses, the mattresses would continue to "land" somewhere else. request
    2. +4
      26 October 2017 10: 13
      Quote: faterdom
      And, of course, all this is past the ticket office, if suddenly there will be a “Ball” or “Bastion” on the shore - they will drown the trough with the marines and this miracle machine so quickly that those “mother” will not have time to shout.

      This is to suppress coastal defense that impedes landing, and the “Ball” and “Bastion” must unroll the KR and aviation ...
      Quote: faterdom
      to decide: whether it is necessary to purchase it for the ILC and its scope.

      Most likely it is.
  13. SMP
    0
    25 October 2017 21: 47
    In Canada, the container ship rebuilt into an integrated supply tanker
    October 17 2017
    At a Canadian shipyard, Davie Shipbuilding on Monday was pulled out of a construction dock by an Asterix integrated supply tanker refurbished, reports bmpd.


    [Apparently, they are launching a grand war, landing boats with a draft of not more than 1,2 meters for Abrams weighing 65 tons, container ships are being converted into military vessels, now multiple launch rocket systems from landing ships, and still do not print much.

    The missile was launched from the deck of the USS Anchorage (LPD-23) landing transport dock type San Antonio (the car with the rocket launcher was located on the helipad of the ship).
  14. 0
    25 October 2017 22: 14
    HIMARS in a certain sector seems to be working .. Do you need to deploy this ship, or will the truck steer along the deck?
  15. 0
    25 October 2017 22: 31
    Well done! They mastered budget funds .... for one and ride ...
  16. 0
    26 October 2017 05: 14
    Or I, or Americans from someone trying to make an idiot request . I understand why we tested the "shell-C1" from the side - to check whether it is possible to "take and put" the installation immediately without an epic alteration, we found out - yes it is possible. But why should the mattresses be “screwed” to the barges, and what can they put the installations at all on, not on warships (there simply is no place there)? Moreover, the idea of ​​"we bomb all or throw tomahawks" is declared among the merikos. So what the hell to them this junk and in such a perverted form? negative
    1. +3
      26 October 2017 10: 18
      Quote: Mih1974
      Moreover, the idea of ​​"we bomb all or throw tomahawks" is declared among the merikos. So what the hell to them this junk and in such a perverted form?

      Saving. Cheaper than axes and aircraft. To disperse the pygmies is enough. It will completely prepare the shore for landing at a sufficient depth, get off the boat and continue to support the advance of the marines.
  17. 0
    26 October 2017 09: 27
    Here’s the missile system no matter what surface it shoots !!! but if during a storm and even on purpose then yes, I agree, but no, they’re engaged in garbage)))))))))))
  18. +1
    26 October 2017 09: 49
    They look like GPS guided missiles. Therefore, the result.
    I have long had a question why not make us such a system - I screwed the knob with aerodynamic rudders and turned the Grad rocket into a high-precision one. It would be very beneficial to turn conventional ammunition into high-precision.
    1. 0
      27 October 2017 01: 04
      Quote: Gogia
      I have long had a question, why not make us such a system

      Many have such a question, and not the first year. And not a single intelligible answer.

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