HIMARS demonstration on Exercise Talisman Sabre 2019
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Date: 17/07/2019

The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is a light multiple rocket launcher. The live fire exercise at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area involved integration of a number of lethal and non-lethal capabilities, commanded and controlled by the Deployable Joint Force Headquarters. The live fire included US Army and US Marine Corps HIMARS, US Marine Corps F35B and US Army A-64 Apache helicopters. The live fire exercise was supported with US Marine Corps C-130 aircraft, Royal Australian Air Force P-8 Poseidon Maritime Surveillance Aircraft, the E-7 Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft, the Australian Army S-100 and the Royal Australian Navy Scan Eagle Unmanned Aircraft Systems, and Amphibious Pre-Landing Force operators from 2nd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment.


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