According to other data, they are deployed in three batteries and 29 in a division. There are 9 and 27 combat vehicles in a division and a corps of ground forces, respectively. Organizationally MLRS systems are combined into batteries and field artillery divisions. As of September 1995, 857 combat vehicles were delivered - 772 to the active army and 185 to the US National Guard. In the 1989 financial year, joint production of the MLRS system began with specialists from the USA, UK, Germany, France and Italy. The second multi-year contract for the purchase of the MLRS system for 1989-1993 was concluded in July 1989. After 2-3 years, it began to enter the service of the ground forces of the armies of other countries. In 1983, a new MLRS multiple rocket launcher system was introduced into service with the US Army. The company invested more than 42 million US dollars to create automated production facilities located in Eastern Camden (Arkansas) for the production of rigs (combat vehicles) and projectiles. The combat vehicles assembled as part of initial production were delivered to the army in August 1982. The first projectiles assembled as part of small-scale production were delivered in May 1982. The firepower of the GSRS prototype vehicle was to match the firepower of the 27 howitzers of the 203mm caliber. In April 1980, Ling Tempco Vought of Dallas, Texas (now Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Dallas) was selected as the lead contractor to coordinate the development of the MLRS system. The program was renamed the Multiple Launch Rocket System or MLRS. Army Missile Research and Development Command) changed the direction of further development of the GSRS system with the ability to produce both in the United States and Europe. Army Missile Research and Development Command (U.S. The solid propellant rocket engine (SPRM) for the projectile was developed by Atlantic Research specialists. Under the contract, each company supplied three combat vehicle prototypes and unguided rockets for comparative testing at the White Sands Missile Range (New Mexico). In September 1977, Boeing Aerospace and Vought Corporation signed a contract for a 29-month period of ratification (approval) of the GSRS development tender. In March 1976, representatives of five companies (Boeing, Emerson Electric, Martin Marietta, Northrop and Vought (now Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control) signed a contract to evaluate the GSRS General Support Rocket System concept. At the beginning of 1976, preparatory work began to develop a concept for its creation. Initially, a variant was developed to equip tactical and operational units (division, hull), called GSRS (General Support Rocket System). The MLRS multiple rocket launcher system is designed to perform, at any time of the day and under various weather conditions, combat missions to engage and destroy guns, rocket forces and equipment, areas where air defense forces and equipment are concentrated, trucks, light armoured personnel carriers, as well as areas where troops and technical positions are concentrated.
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