Army wants to get rockets lower into its formations, says AFC commanding general

By Dan Schere / October 14, 2024 at 7:00 AM
The Army is “aggressively pursuing rockets” with the goal of increasing the lethality of the service’s light formations, Army Futures Command Commanding Gen. James Rainey says. Rainey, speaking to reporters at the Pentagon on Sep. 26 ahead of the Association of the United States Army’s annual conference in Washington, said among the lessons learned coming out of the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza recently are that “range, lethality, mobility, cost is very attractive on rockets.” However, he said that the...

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