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Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is a 1997 role-playing video game developed and published by Interplay Productions, set in a mid-22nd century post-apocalyptic and retro-futuristic world, decades after a nuclear war between the United States and China. Fallout 's protagonist, the Vault Dweller, inhabits an underground nuclear shelter.
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The requirement for HIMARS first came about in 1982, when the 9th Infantry Division (Motorized) saw the need to acquire a light multiple rocket launcher as a counterfire asset. The requirement failed to gather support from the Field Artillery School and languished for a number of years. The institutional bias at the time was oriented towards heavy ...
The HIMARS is similar in design to the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), with the main exception being that it is a wheeled vehicle as opposed to a tracked vehicle. The HIMARS can carry the same type of pods as the M270, but carries one pod while the M270 carries two pods. The HIMARS windows are made of sheets of sapphirelaminated with gla...
Afghanistan and the Middle East
In February 2010, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan indicated in a press release that two rockets fired from a HIMARS were believed to have fallen 300 metres short of their intended target, killing 12 civilians during Operation Moshtarak. ISAF suspended the use of the HIMARS until a full review of the incident was completed. A British officer later said that the rockets were on target, that the target was in use by the Taliban, and that use of the system had b...
Ukraine
On 1 June 2022, the US announced that it would be supplying four HIMARS to Ukraine with M31 GMLRS unitary rockets. On 23 June, the first HIMARS arrived in Ukraine, according to Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov. On 25 June 2022, Ukraine started deploying the system against Russian forces during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, "Artillerymen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit ... military targ...
Lockheed Martin UK and INSYS had jointly developed a demonstrator rocket artillery system similar to HIMARS for the British Army's "Lightweight Mobile Artillery Weapon System/Rocket" (LIMAWS(R)) program. The system consisted of a single MLRS pod, mounted on a Supacat SPV600 chassis.The LIMAWS(R) program was canceled in September 2007. Lockheed Mart...
Current operators
United States 1. 1.1. United States Army 1.1.1. 210th Field Artillery Brigade (210th FAB) 1.1.1.1. 6th Battalion 37th Field Artillery Regiment(6-37 FAR) 1.1.1.2. 1st Battalion 13th Field Artillery Regiment(1-13 FAR) 1.1.2. 17th Field Artillery Brigade (17th FAB) 1.1.2.1. 5th Battalion 3rd Field Artillery Regiment(5-3rd FAR) 1.1.2.2. 1st Battalion 94th Field Artillery Regiment(1-94th FAR) 1.1.3. 18th Field Artillery Brigade (18th FAB) 1.1.3.1. 3rd Battalion 27th Field Artillery Regiment(3-27th...
Future operators
Australia 1. 1.1. Australian Army: The Pentagon reported that the Australian Army had requested to purchase 20 HIMARS at a cost of "between one and two billion [Australian] dollars", with the sale being approved by the U.S. State Department in May 2022. Estonia 1. 1.1. Estonian Land Forces: In July 2022, United States approved the sale of six systems to Estonia as part of package estimated at $500 million.A contract was signed in December 2022. Italy 1. 1.1. Italian Army: In December 2023, th...
Potential operators
Philippines 1. 1.1. Philippine Army
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