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The soldiers brought two High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, with them.
I was reading about how the Marines were interested in HIMARS for that WRT China. Any conflict with China would likely be in large part maritime, but HIMARS is big enough that it can launch munitions with enough range that it can take out ships, act in an area-denial role.
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Here's someone mentioning that.
Black Sea Drill Again Validates HIMARS as an Anti-Ship Weapon System
This isn’t the first time that the U.S. Army and the U.S Air Force used this tactic as the HIMARS RO-RO concept dates back years with the idea of landing C-130s into the field, having the HiMARS drive off, park at a distance, set up, fire, and then drive and reload back into the cargo planes for immediate take-off without the need to reload or refuel. The U.S. Marines operate in similar fashion with their HiMARS and U.S. Marine Corps KC-130Js.
The U.S. Marines do not have any tracked MLRSs in inventory) and the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps’ (U.S.M.C.) HIMARS are seen as one of the pivotal key launchers for the current and future United States’ strategy and tactics for an Anti-Ship land-based weapon system that can counter peer nations’ shipping and breach Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) in the Pacific.
With future land-based Anti-Ship Precision Guided Weapons in development and available now, such as the Naval Strike Missile, the U.S. Army’s tracked MLRS, 6×6 HIMARS, and 8×8 Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT), and the U.S. Marines’ 8×8 Logistic Vehicle System Replacement (LVSR) and HIMARS, when modified and outfitted as Anti-Shipping rocket or missile launchers, are poised to become the “Go to” system for LBASM and LRPFs to prevent enemy ships and amphibious assaults on allied-protected islands and shores
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