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  • Officers said the barrage had been fired from Camp Bastion, a large British and American base to the northeast, by a weapons system known as HIMARS, an acronym for High Mobility Artillery Rocket System.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • BAE's Increased Crew Protection (ICP) cab for the HIMARS is a proprietary design.

    Defense Industry Daily 2010

  • Officers said the barrage had been fired from Camp Bastion, a large British and U.S. base to the northeast, by a weapons system known as HIMARS, for High Mobility Artillery Rocket System.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • BAE's Increased Crew Protection (ICP) cab for the HIMARS is a proprietary design.

    Defense Industry Daily 2010

  • The HIMARS is a mobile rocket system used by the El Paso, Texas-based reserve battery, which is here to support Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force -

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • One clarification up front is that FMTV variants used as part of other weapons system, such as HIMARS rocket launchers,

    Defense Industry Daily 2010

  • One clarification up front is that FMTV variants used as part of other weapons system, such as HIMARS rocket launchers,

    Defense Industry Daily 2010

  • These contradictions soon bore deadly fruit: On the second day of the offensive, U.S. troops fired a HIMARS High Mobility Artillery Rocket System weapon on a house full of civilians, killing roughly a dozen people.

    Derrick Crowe: On Anniversary of Marjah Push, Escalation Strategy Still Failing Derrick Crowe 2011

  • These contradictions soon bore deadly fruit: On the second day of the offensive, U.S. troops fired a HIMARS High Mobility Artillery Rocket System weapon on a house full of civilians, killing roughly a dozen people.

    Derrick Crowe: On Anniversary of Marjah Push, Escalation Strategy Still Failing Derrick Crowe 2011

  • These contradictions soon bore deadly fruit: On the second day of the offensive, U.S. troops fired a HIMARS High Mobility Artillery Rocket System weapon on a house full of civilians, killing roughly a dozen people.

    Derrick Crowe: On Anniversary of Marjah Push, Escalation Strategy Still Failing Derrick Crowe 2011

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  • Acronym for a specific kind of moveable weapons system developed in the 1990s, usually truck-mounted, the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System

    July 30, 2022

  • As of July 2022, USA-donated HIMARS are being used by Ukraine in the war against Russia.

    July 30, 2022