Improved Multiple Launch Rocket System tested at White Sands Missile Range

Over 100 artillery rockets were launched June 16 at White Sands Missile Range, or WSMR, to test an improved version of the M270A1 Multiple Launch Rocket System, or MLRS.

The test, conducted at WSMR's G-16 impact area, saw an M270A1 MLRS vehicle equipped with a new armored cab, fire 138 rockets to ensure the improvements didn't negatively impact the vehicles' mission performance.

"The number to be shot is equivalent of a normal high-op tempo operation," said Maj. Jaime Santiago, assistant product manager at the Precision Fires Rocket and Missile Systems Project Office. "The platform is supposed to prove out the capability and ensure the new upgrades have not degraded that capability."

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