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The first visually confirmed loss of a "HIMARS"
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I'm amazed it's taken this long for one to be lost. We should send a dozen more to compensate.
Ukraine's been constructing decoys, and there's a Czech company that's been building decoys as well. I'd imagine that some of it is weapons being used on decoys.
Apparently we deactivated a HIMARS battalion today.
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2024/03/05/marine-himars-battalion-to-fold-amid-overhaul-of-corps-artillery/
I don't know how many launchers they have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Battalion,_11th_Marines
That says five batteries.
If you figure that the launcher allocation is the same as the batteries that Poland is putting together:
https://defbrief.com/2022/05/26/poland-buying-500-himars-launchers-for-over-80-batteries/
...then maybe six launchers per battery, so maybe thirty launchers that I assume aren't going to be used any more.
It looks like the NMESIS that they're switching to is some kind of smaller, unmanned launcher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Strike_Missile
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/NMESIS_launcher.jpg/1920px-NMESIS_launcher.jpg