Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF)

The Army is working on a new high-speed, first-of-its-kind long-range ground launched attack missile able to pinpoint and destroy enemy bunkers, helicopter staging areas, troop concentrations and other fixed-location targets from as much as three times the range of existing weapons.  The Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) is to be operational by 2027 and is being designed to destroy targets at distances up to 312 Miles (500 kilometers).

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The new LRPF missile is designed to replace the Army’s current aging 1980’s era MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System, a ground-launched missile able to fire to at least 160 kilometers.  The Long Range Precision Fires Missile will attack, neutralize, suppress and destroy targets using missile-delivered indirect precision fires.  

Raytheon’s Long-Range Precision Fires weapon is designed to integrate with existing rocket launchers.  The LRPF will fire from the two existing Army launchers, the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System and the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System.  The launcher will fire two missiles from a single weapons pod.  The new missile's range and speed will allow Army combat units to engage targets over vast geographic spaces in high-threat environments.