What is the M142 HIMARS?
A: The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is a light
multiple rocket launcher mounted on a standard U.S. Army M1140 truck frame.
The M142 carries one pod with either six GMLRS rockets
or what?
A: One ATACMS missile.
What can it launch?
A: The entire Multiple Launch Rocket System Family of Munitions (MFOM).
M142 ammunition pods are interchangeable with what?
A: The M270 MLRS; however, it is able to carry only one pod rather than the
standard two for the M270 and its variants.
The launcher can be transported by what aircraft?
A: Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft.
The chassis was initially produced by whom?
A: BAE Systems Mobility & Protection Systems.
Who produced it from 2010 to
2017?
A: The Oshkosh Corporation.
Who now produces both chassis and launcher system?
A: They are now produced by Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control in
Camden, Arkansas.
The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)
is a wheeled version of what?
A: The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS).
The windows of the launcher truck are made of what?
A: Glass and layers of
sapphire.
M142 was also tested as a common launcher for both
artillery rockets and what?
A: The SLAMRAAM surface-launched variant of the AMRAAM anti-aircraft
missile.
In October 2017, a Marine Corps M142 fired a rocket
while at sea against a land target for the first time from the deck of the
amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage, demonstrating what?
A: The system's ability to operate while on ships to deliver precision fire
from a standoff range against shore defenses.
The vehicle's targeting software was reworked so it can
better fire while what?
A: While on a constantly moving and maneuvering launch platform.
A report in the New York Times on 21 October 2010
credited the M142 with aiding the NATO offensive in Kandahar by targeting
what?
A: The Taliban commanders' hideouts, forcing many to flee to
Pakistan, at
least temporarily.
In November 2015, the U.S. Army revealed that it had
deployed the M142 to what country?
A: Iraq, firing at least 400 rockets at
Islamic State (ISIL) targets since
the beginning of that summer.
On 4 March 2016, a U.S. Army M142 fired rockets into
what country for the first time?
A: Syria in support of Syrian rebels fighting ISIL, from launchers based in
neighboring Jordan.
In January 2016, Lockheed announced that the M142 had
reached what?
A: 1 million operational hours with U.S. forces, achieving a 99 percent
operational readiness rate.
On 24 May 2018, a M142 strike killed who in Musa Qala,
Afghanistan?
A: 50 Taliban fighters and leaders.
Three rockets struck the building within what time
span?
A: A 14-second timespan.
On 31 May 2022, the US announced would be supplying
M142 launchers to what country?
A: Ukraine with M31 GMLRS unitary rockets.
The next day, it was reported that how many units would
be sent?
A: Four.
When did the first HIMARS arrive in Ukraine according
to Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov?
A: On 23 June.
When did Ukraine start deploying the system against
Russian forces during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine?
A: 25 June 2022.
The Ukrainian military claimed that this first strike,
on a Russian base in Izyum, killed how many Russian soldiers?
A: Over 40.
The same weapon system killed Russian Colonel Andrei
Vasilyev, commander of what?
A: An elite VDV paratrooper regiment.