The United States has announced that it is sending its High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems known as <\/span>HIMARS <\/b>to Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n The US-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems are known as HIMARS.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is a multiple launch rocket system or MLRS – a mobile unit that can simultaneously launch multiple precision-guided missiles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is considered a modernized, lighter and more agile version of the M270 MLRS developed in the 1970s for US and allied forces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n An artillery rocket is a weapon that is typically propelled by a solid-fuel motor and can carry a variety of warheads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n During the Cold War, most artillery rockets were unguided and imprecise when fired at greater distances.<\/span><\/p>\n The nomenclature can be confusing sometimes, but generally, the word \u201crocket\u201d is used in a military context to refer to relatively inexpensive unguided weapons powered by solid-fuel motors.<\/span><\/p>\n On the other hand,\u00a0 \u201cmissile\u201d is generally shorthand for \u201cguided missiles,\u201d more expensive and complicated weapons that use movable fins to steer themselves to their targets and can fly much farther.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cExplained: What are \u2018artillery rockets,\u2019 and why is the US sending them to Ukraine?\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Indian Express <\/b>on 2nd June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The United States has announced that it is sending its High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems known as HIMARS to Ukraine. What is HIMARS? The US-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems are known as HIMARS.\u00a0 It is a multiple launch rocket system or MLRS – a mobile unit that can simultaneously launch… Continue reading Explained: What are \u2018artillery rockets,\u2019 and why is the US sending them to Ukraine?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-187876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704748836},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is HIMARS?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is an artillery rocket?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What\u2019s the difference between a rocket and a missile?<\/b><\/h5>\n