{"id":52790,"date":"2024-12-04T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/12\/04\/army-eyes-autonomous-missile-launcher-and-1000-kilometer-strikes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:06:02","slug":"army-eyes-autonomous-missile-launcher-and-1000-kilometer-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/2024\/12\/04\/army-eyes-autonomous-missile-launcher-and-1000-kilometer-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Army eyes autonomous missile launcher and 1,000-kilometer strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Update: This article has been revised to include the scheduled start of increment 5 for the Precision Strike Missile.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army\u2019s next step in expanding the distance and survivability of its land-based rockets could see a missile delivered from an autonomous launcher to strike targets farther than 1,000 kilometers away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, Maj. Gen. Winston Brooks<\/a>, commander of the Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Brig. Gen. Rory Crooks, director of the Cross Functional Team-Long Range Precision Fires, discussed future work on \u201cIncrement 5\u2033 of the Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If successful, the project would give even low-level tactical units the ability to conduct what are known as \u201cstrategic deep fires,\u201d which range beyond 500 kilometers, according to Army data.<\/p>\n\n\n\t