M-26 artillery rocket

M-26 artillery rocket

M26 is the basic MLRS rocket. It is unguided with a range of 20mi (32km). It is armed with 644 M77 DPICM (Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions) anti-personnel/anti-materiel grenades, which are dispersed over the target in mid-air and detonate on impact.

There is a newer, guided DPICM-armed MLRS rocket called the M30.

The UK Ministry of Defence has recently announced it will cease to use dumb cluster munitions and will destroy its remaining stocks of the M30.Fact|date=June 2007 The British Army will instead procure the "M31" variant which has a unitary high-explosive warhead. [ [http://www.missilesandfirecontrol.com/our_news/pressreleases/07pressrelease/GMLRS_060607.shtml Lockheed Martin provides new precision rocket capability to United Kingdom MoD] ]

ee also

*Multiple rocket launcher

References

External links

* [http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/mlrs.html Information about M26/M30 on designation-systems.net]
* [http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/08/18/global14050.htm Human Rights Watch "Cluster Munition Questions and Answers: The M26 Rocket"]


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