Nah there's good work on it. And its not that secret, atleast as far as I know because they are allowing interns to work on it.
True but then an IR system defeats the cost argument.
IR isnt that expensive :/ atleast as far as I know.True but then an IR system defeats the cost argument.
Oh those poor interns .. classifying images day in and day out. Modern slavery I tell you
No interns do that.
I suspect this is because of better hardware and control algorithm/design on HIMARS.
The guidance mechanism was developed in-house by DRDO labs.
Against unprotected lightly armored targets or humans it can be somewhat effective depending on situation and environment.
Who said HIMARS has "accuracy of 1-2 meters"? Its got "less than 15 meters CEP" based on this official document:-
60-80 meters is written on that poster, but CEP is not. So by 60-80 meters, they could just as easily mean R99, not CEP. Meaning 99% of all rounds fall within 60-80 meters. Plus, the range is stated to be 80 km when we know the latest test got to 90 km mark. Which means the poster is likely outdated (although not to say that he accuracy would have definitely improved, but its a possibility).
With bomblets or PF warhead that airbursts and gives a tungsten pellet shower effective upto 60 meter radius, we can take care of these issues. The idea with MLRS is carpet bombing. The blast radii need to overlap and with bomblets, it won't matter. You are a gone case unless you are infantry in a slit trench. Weapon emplacements, especially those of artillery are not just 2-3 meters, they are a bit wider. And with bomblets, they are bound to pepper the inside of each emplacement. (Assuming no slopes, because they do increase miss distances drastically). And then there is the PF warhead with tungsten pellet shower that would look something like this;-
MRPKS is meant to do that, but small drones are much slower and vulnerable to interception with new gen SHORADs. Not to mention their smaller warhead capacity. Plus, wartime production supply chains at least for munitions needs to go independent of foreigners to ensure rapid ramp up and no supply chain disruption possibility. Can we do that with drone avionics?
According to the U.S. Marines, HIMARS can fire at a 186-miles (300-kilometer) target with 1-meter accuracy and is referred to as a "strategic fires" asset for Marine artillery.
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Please don't give me news media on propaganda overdrive due to Ukraine war as your sources when I am giving you official sources. And here I am talking about HIMARS comparison to Pinaka and you are giving me ATACMS figures of 300 km.According to the U.S. Marines, HIMARS can fire at a 186-miles (300-kilometer) target with 1-meter accuracy and is referred to as a "strategic fires" asset for Marine artillery.
When firing GMLRS-Unitary precision rockets, HIMARS can achieve ranges of 70+ kilometers, attacking the target with low collateral damage, enabling danger-close fires (within 200 meters) in support of friendly troops in contact, and engaging high-value point targets in open, urban, and complex environments. HIMARS and MLRS launchers are getting a common fire control system.
Watch the terrifying power of HIMARS with this footage from RIMPAC 2022
HIMARS gets a lot of attention in the news lately, and for good reason. Check out this latest footage of the system at work.interestingengineering.com
The guided rockets are accurate to within two to three meters, two defense officials told CNN, allowing the Ukrainians to use far fewer rounds to hit targets precisely at distance.
Ukraine's new US rockets are causing fresh problems for Russia | CNN
There's a new and potentially very significant factor in the Ukrainian conflict: the Ukrainians' ability to use recently supplied Western systems to hit Russian command posts, logistical hubs and ammunition dumps a long way beyond the front lines.edition.cnn.com
The American weapon can launch six rockets from the "MFOM" family of projectiles with enough precision to hit a car from up to 70 kilometers away
HIMARS: The U.S. Rocket System Being Sent To Ukraine
Washington has agreed to supply Ukraine with a powerful rocket artillery system. Here's how the weapon works, and why its full power will not be available to Kyiv.
Overstated specification of HIMARS. All the overstatements are from future marketing angle. The more they talk about it’s accuracy, there is greater possibilities of sales elsewhere.According to the U.S. Marines, HIMARS can fire at a 186-miles (300-kilometer) target with 1-meter accuracy and is referred to as a "strategic fires" asset for Marine artillery.
When firing GMLRS-Unitary precision rockets, HIMARS can achieve ranges of 70+ kilometers, attacking the target with low collateral damage, enabling danger-close fires (within 200 meters) in support of friendly troops in contact, and engaging high-value point targets in open, urban, and complex environments. HIMARS and MLRS launchers are getting a common fire control system.
Watch the terrifying power of HIMARS with this footage from RIMPAC 2022
HIMARS gets a lot of attention in the news lately, and for good reason. Check out this latest footage of the system at work.
The guided rockets are accurate to within two to three meters, two defense officials told CNN, allowing the Ukrainians to use far fewer rounds to hit targets precisely at distance.
Ukraine's new US rockets are causing fresh problems for Russia | CNN
There's a new and potentially very significant factor in the Ukrainian conflict: the Ukrainians' ability to use recently supplied Western systems to hit Russian command posts, logistical hubs and ammunition dumps a long way beyond the front lines.
The American weapon can launch six rockets from the "MFOM" family of projectiles with enough precision to hit a car from up to 70 kilometers away
HIMARS: The U.S. Rocket System Being Sent To Ukraine
Washington has agreed to supply Ukraine with a powerful rocket artillery system. Here's how the weapon works, and why its full power will not be available to Kyiv.
I am fed up with this Russo-Ukrainian war propaganda. Please don't make me parse through all this bull$hit especially on unrelated threads.
there is a video . this looks like <2m accuracy to me .I am fed up with this Russo-Ukrainian war propaganda. Please don't make me parse through all this bull$hit especially on unrelated threads.
1.) Can't make anything out from that sat image. Zoom right in, I can't make out the craters inside those red circles.
2.) So I go to the twitter thread and the dude has posted a video of trucks on that bridge and the craters can be seen there. Only thing I see here are craters that don't look like the work of a 100 kg unitary warhead. You sure these weren't submunitions from a multiple rockets? Because that is what they look like to me.
3.) And then there is another image of a bridge with these craters spaced very close together:-
^ This again doesn't look like the work of a 100 kg unitary warhead. Those siderails would have been gone if that many 100 kg warheads had gone off that many times. But they appear fine.
Point is, they are showing bomblets falling on a bridge and damaging it and expect us to believe these are all individual strikes by individual HIMARS rockets? You wouldn't get that good a deal without using Differential GPS. Now tell me, do they have ground stations that can provide differential GPS at that location? Ofc not.
Are the bomblets that landed on the bridge the only ones? Likely not. But I am not about to look for the rest in the river.
And all this is assuming that it even is HIMARS and not damage sustained from other weapons like loitering munitions, mortars or other artillery (guess that would depend on where the frontlines were when these pics came out). But I ain't got the time to look that deep into it, especially when we have an official source stating what the CEP is like.
Whatever it is, its not proof of the mythical 1 meter CEP of HIMARS. And like I said before, go and look at what they had to do to SDB to make it that accurate. Won't just happen with GPS/INS alone. which is what HIMARS guidance is.
Out of the 22 planned how many have been ordered?
The bridge looks about 60ft wide .. within the accuracy of the himars .. size of the craters does indicates a warhead size far less than 100kgs . And its not like we will get to know about any of the submuntions that went into the river.
That’s wishful thinking. Azerbaijan is more than 3 times larger than Armenia in size with vast riches in oil and gas, powerful allies like Israel and Turkey and huge arsenal of various arms from TB-2, Harop, LORA ballistic missiles etc while tiny Armenia is landlocked and faced with a shrinking economy and population. With its main ally Russia bogged down in Ukraine it will be very difficult for it to face Azeri forces on its own with or without Pinaka. Also, not to forget that Armenia and Artsakh were in possession of powerful Russian systems such as S-300 and Smerch during the 44 day war.
What now?
‘Russia is four times bigger than Ukraine, but still Russia is bogged down in Ukraine .
