El US ARMY ha iniciado los ensayos para dotar de m\u00e1s alcance a su renombrado y suficientemente probado en combate GMLRS (Guided Multiple Launcher Rocket System). La anterior modernizaci\u00f3n del sistema, permit\u00eda mayor precisi\u00f3n mediante el agregado de los componentes de control en la cabeza de combate del vector de 227mm, con un alcance de 70km. La nueva versi\u00f3n denominada TC-GMLRS, lleva el componente de control en la cola del vector y con otras mejoras permite obtener un alcance de 130km. Esto los coloca en paridad de condiciones respecto de sus eventuales adversarios.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Army has begun flight tests of a new variant of its 227mm guided artillery rocket that could eventually hit targets out to a maximum range of more than 85 miles. The new design will significantly increase the capability of the service\u2019s tracked and truck-mounted launchers and comes amid a surge of artillery developments intended to help American troops defeat potential near-peer opponents, such as Russia, in a major conflict.<\/p>\n
Earlier in June 2018, the Army\u2019s Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) disclosed the successful test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, which had occurred months earlier. During this experiment, the rocket hit a target around 70 miles away, but the goal is to extend that range by at least another 15 miles.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe flight test couldn’t have gone better,\u201d Brett Wilks, the head of the Tail Controlled Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (TC-GMLRS) project at AMRDEC, said afterward. \u201cWe collected massive amounts of in-flight data on sub-component performance and environment conditions that will be very useful to the entire MLRS Family of Munitions.\u201d<\/p>\n
As its name would imply, the improved rocket design has its flight control surfaces in the tail. The existing Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rocket has its control section in the nose, which the Army has found limit the maximum range of the weapon.<\/p>\n