Congress doubles down on development of new, non-ballistic PrSM capabilities

By Jason Sherman / November 8, 2021 at 12:36 PM
Lawmakers want the Army to begin work immediately on maneuvering submunitions for long-range precision fires while also backing a service proposal for a new project to develop a maneuvering variant of a surface-to-surface missile -- effectively doubling down on efforts to add non-ballistic capabilities to the register of planned Precision Strike Missile improvements. A maneuvering missile that deploys maneuvering submunitions would present an adversary with exponentially more complicated threat trajectories to deal with than a weapon that flies a relatively...

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