L3Harris Technologies announced that it has received a $250 million follow-on contract from Lockheed Martin to produce propulsion units for the standard-range Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS)…
As the program’s solid rocket motor supplier, L3Harris builds the rocket motors for GMLRS rockets, along with the system’s electronic safe-and-arm device and proximity sensor.
Fired from the M142 HIMARS and M270 MLRS launchers, GMLRS is a precision-guided rocket munition.
Guided by an inertial navigation system (INS) and GPS, the rocket has a range of more than 70 kilometers.
Measuring approximately 3.94 meters in length and 227 millimeters in diameter, it can carry either a unitary high-explosive warhead or an Alternative Warhead (AW)…