Space Launch Delta 30’s 2nd Range Operations Squadron range team recently conducted a U.S. Army Strategic and Operational Rockets and Missiles Project Office test launch of a Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM, on Oct. 13, 2021 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif.
Known technically as a theater-support, surface-to-surface, precision-strike, guided missile, PrSM launched from a M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, field artillery launcher.
Vandenberg offers a unique geographical location with support from multiple, highly-skilled Airmen and Guardians across the base. The 2 ROPS members were able to aid the accomplishments of the PrSM program objective of safely and effectively testing the missile’s long-range mission trajectory and performance from the HIMARS launcher in STORM’s first-ever launch from the base.
Months of coordination, rehearsals and supporting instrumentation fixes by 2 ROPS members culminated in a successful test launch and proven demonstration of PrSM from a non-traditional launch environment.
Facilitating a launch like PrSM from Vandenberg helps amplify one of the Army’s top priorities from its Army Modernization Strategy, which states a need for “a deliberate, synchronized approach that modernizes how we fight, what we fight with, and who we are will enable the Army to achieve irreversible momentum now to build the Multi-Domain Operations ready force by 2035.”
Date Taken: | 10.13.2021 |
Date Posted: | 11.16.2021 14:52 |
Story ID: | 409448 |
Location: | VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, CALIFORNIA, US |
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