High Mobility Artillery Rocket System

The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is a light multiple rocket launcher developed in the late 1990s for the United States Army, mounted on a standard U.S. Army Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) M1140 truck frame. It carries one pod with either six Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System rockets or one ATACMS missile and is capable of launching all rockets in the Multiple Launch Rocket System Family of Munitions. The HIMARS is similar in design to the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System, but is a wheeled vehicle instead of a tracked vehicle, and has a single pod instead of two. It was developed as a private venture by Loral Vought Systems, later Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, and was first tested in 1991, with production beginning in 2001.learn more on wikipedia