New Army Precision Strike Missile to Attack Enemy Ships at Sea, Achieves Breakthrough Range

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By Kris Osborn – President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven

The Army test fired its new Precision Strike Missile during its Project Convergence 21 war-networking experiment in the Arizona desert as part of a decided effort to establish the weapon as multi-domain capable.

The PrSM, which broke new range records in a test earlier this year, is envisioned as a long-range, precision-strike weapon able to destroy targets on land or at sea, something which was assessed during the experiment at Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz.

Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) 

PrSM broke new records after being fired off during a test at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, a development representing an ability to change the paradigm for ground warfare by bringing new ranges and precision against enemy ground installations, equipment, air defenses, command and control structures and even moving targets.

While initially conceived of as a land-attack weapon to “out range” an enemy and destroy enemy installations, armored columns and air defenses at unprecedented ranges, the PrSM can be equally significant as a maritime attack system able to fire from land to destroy enemy surface ships.

“The long term missile solution for the Army is to attack all domains including maritime and land…. is PrSM,” said Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, Director, Long Range Precision Fires Cross Functional Team, Army Futures Command.