< IMG SRC = "/Uploads/Blogs/13/B8/IB-FRRE8KV10_9316240d.jpg" Alt = "American developers significantly modernize the Typhoon combat system for starting winged missiles Tomahawk"/~ 62. < p >The US Army plans to improve the Typhoon missile complex, designed to launch Tomahawk winged missiles and SM-6 anti-aircraft missiles, adapting it to the specifics of combat in the Pacific. The main problem is the dimensions and weak mobility of the complex: starting installations and auxiliary machines mounted on large -sized trailer trucks, which complicates movement on narrow streets and M & Rsquo; which is the soil of tropical islands, informs Defense Express. < P > In response to these Pentagon calls, he became interested in the new unmanned LONG FIRS (LRF) launcher installation (LRF), created on the Drone Jltv Rogue Fires drone. It is much smaller in size, has only one starting unit (unlike four in Typhoon) and can even be transported by CH-47 chinok helicopters. In addition, unmanned format allows to protect personnel, because combat operations can be conducted remotely.
< p >Long Range Fires (lrf) & mdash; It is the concept and program within the modernization of US Army, which involves the creation of high -precision means of a long range. Meta & mdash; Ensure the ability to destroy strategically important goals of the enemy outside the reach of its defense systems, including command points, SACs and logistics. This direction is a priority for the US Army in terms of confrontation with equal opponent in many domain war.< P > LRF includes several key systems: a modernized Precision Strike Missile (PRSM) rocket with a range of more than 500 km; supersonic and hypersonic missiles, such as Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (Lrhw); As well as ERCA Strategic Artillery (Extended Range Cannon Artiller), allowing artillery to beat more than 70 km. All of these systems integrate into network architecture of command and intelligence, which allows real -time to detect goals and make point blows on the deep rear of the enemy.
< P > Up the US LRF Marine Corps are already coming. The 2025 financial year provides for the purchase of 8 such systems, and by 2031 another 46 units are planned. It is noteworthy that Marines already actively use similar platforms & mdash; NMESIS launchers with NSM anti -ship missiles, which are ordered over 100.
< p > Whether the purchase of the LRF US Army & mdash; It depends on its final assessment of the prospects of the fighting theater in the Pacific. But now it is obvious that the rate of mobility and unmanned solutions becomes decisive in the modernization of American missile forces.