December 2017 - High Mobility
Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) live-fire by 5th
Battalion, 11th Marines (1st Marine Division) at Marine
Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms,
California. The mission of the 5th Battalion, 11th Marines
is to provide the Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) with
timely and accurate rocket and missile fires in a general
support, general support-reinforcing and reinforcing role in
order to suppress, neutralize, or destroy the enemy.
HIMARS is a C-5 transportable, wheeled, indirect fire,
rocket/missile system capable of firing all current and
future rockets and missiles in the Multiple-Launch Rocket
System Family of Munitions (MFOM). The HIMARS launcher
consists of a fire control system, carrier (automotive
platform), and launcher-loader module that performs all
operations necessary to complete a fire mission. The basic
system is defined as one launcher, one resupply vehicle, and
two resupply trailers.
U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Devin Andrews Video edited by USA Patriotism!
