USA, Germany and Sweden hit Himars

The USA, Germany and Sweden by the blows of the rocket lapsing systems (MLRS) Himars worked out the defense of the Baltic states, the Swedish Ministry of Defense reports.

According to the report, the exercises began with the arrival of a military transport aircraft from Germany, which delivered to Sweden the Himars installation assigned to the 56th command of the US Army field artillery in Europe and Africa. MLRS released six missiles, after which it was loaded onto the plane and sent to Germany.

For firing, 227-mm M31 jet shells with a fragmentation-fluent warhead weighed 91 kilograms were used by GPS.