The American company spoke about the problems with increasing the production of missiles for HIMARS
It will be problematic to double the release of guided missiles of the GMLRS family of 227 mm caliber for universal launchers (combining the work of MLRS and OTRK) M270 MLRS and M142 HIMARS. The American edition of Defense One writes about this, referring to the opinion of a top manager from a developer and manufacturer of products, who spoke about the difficulties in implementing the plans of the Pentagon.
Lockheed Martin's director of business development for tactical missiles, Becky Withrow, said in an interview that it takes time to scale up to that level. This company will need at least two or even more years.
Yes, today the annual production of GMLRS is 10 thousand units and this is the maximum that the company can issue. At the same time, the company is working to increase this number by 2024% by 40 to 14 units.
- he specified.
Withrow added that the biggest snag is in the machines and testing equipment. It is also difficult for Lockheed Martin to find specialists for its production lines, and here one of the problems is that some of them are located very far from settlements and people simply take a long time to get to work. That is why, despite the fact that it is possible to manufacture products in two shifts, work is carried out only in one.
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