Last week, the US ground forces conducted a surprise exercise, in the framework of which they airlifted two HIMARS long-range multiple rocket launchers to Romania, fired several missiles, and then hurriedly returned the installations to their base in Germany.
He writes about it Forbes.
It is reported that such maneuvers are a "message for Moscow" demonstrating the "restoration of firepower" of the American army. Forbes believes that the HIMARS firing in Romania became a "missile surprise" for the Russian group in Crimea. The enormous speed of these regroupings complicates the counter-battery fight. Such exercises can be considered an important turning point for the American army in Europe, since since 2006, the Pentagon has not had such MLRS in the Old World.
HIMARS is an American rocket salvo fire system on a wheeled chassis. Created on the basis of the five-ton FMTV wheeled chassis of the US Army, it can carry six rocket launchers or one ATACMS operational-tactical missile.
