M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System

Romania has inaugurated a support center for American HIMARS missile systems, marking another step in the collaboration between Aerostar Bacau, a leading company in the Romanian defense industry, and the American giant Lockheed Martin, according to BTA.

In 2021, Romania became the first Eastern European country to acquire HIMARS, ahead of nations such as Poland and Lithuania.

The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine announced that a thermal power plant in the front zone was severely damaged in the Russian shelling.
The port infrastructure on the Danube was hit in the Russian drone attack. Republicans in the US Senate blocked additional legislation on financial aid to Kyiv.

"Air defense systems intercepted eighteen missiles from HIMARS multi-barrel rocket launchers and one GLSDB guided missile," according to the ministry's daily report.
This ammunition is a joint project of Boeing and Swedish Saab, which added a rocket engine to the bomb and adapted it to launch from ground systems, Novosti reported.

The ministry also said that Russian forces had destroyed a U.S.-supplied HIMARS rocket system

And at this moment, the priority is the uninterrupted supply of ammunition, said Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
in Pentagon, Colin Kahl.
According to him, Ukraine received 16 HIMARS launchers from the USA, three identical M270 systems from Great Britain, while Germany is preparing to transfer three more.

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London will supply Kyiv with long-range missile systems

The main elements of the first long-range High Mobility Artillery Rocket System - HIMARS which will be part of the Romanian Army's arsenal arrived on Saturday in Constanta Port, the Ministry of National Defense announced. The equipment and related materials will be taken to the headquarters of the "Maj.