- Reaction score
- 66
- Points
- 530
Its a great system that keeps friendly forces out of the range of enemy weapons.
http://www.defensetech.org/2016/09/12/us-turns-to-truck-mounted-rockets-for-operations-in-mosul-raqqa/
The truck-mounted M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, used sporadically thus far in the anti-ISIS campaign in Iraq and Syria, is increasingly being employed in the “shaping operations” for the long-planned offensives against Mosul and Raqqa.
The system, produced by Lockheed Martin, fired from Turkey earlier this month in support of Turkish forces now inside northeastern Syria, partly to seal the border against foreign fighter reinforcements for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, said U.S. Air Force Col. John Dorrian, a spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve.
In a video briefing to the Pentagon from Baghdad last Thursday, Dorrian also said that the system has been used in support of the Iraqi Security Forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in their “shaping operations in and around Mosul. What we’ve done is we’ve hammered Daesh targets with airstrikes and strikes from artillery and HIMARS,” he said, using another term for ISIS.
http://www.defensetech.org/2016/09/12/us-turns-to-truck-mounted-rockets-for-operations-in-mosul-raqqa/
The truck-mounted M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, used sporadically thus far in the anti-ISIS campaign in Iraq and Syria, is increasingly being employed in the “shaping operations” for the long-planned offensives against Mosul and Raqqa.
The system, produced by Lockheed Martin, fired from Turkey earlier this month in support of Turkish forces now inside northeastern Syria, partly to seal the border against foreign fighter reinforcements for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, said U.S. Air Force Col. John Dorrian, a spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve.
In a video briefing to the Pentagon from Baghdad last Thursday, Dorrian also said that the system has been used in support of the Iraqi Security Forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in their “shaping operations in and around Mosul. What we’ve done is we’ve hammered Daesh targets with airstrikes and strikes from artillery and HIMARS,” he said, using another term for ISIS.
