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The Joint Fire Support Missile (JFS-M) is a low cost ground launched
cruise missile A cruise missile is a guided missile used against terrestrial or naval targets that remains in the atmosphere and flies the major portion of its flight path at approximately constant speed. Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large warhe ...
with a range of up to 499 km. European missile manufacturer MBDA designed this missile to be launched from the
M270 MLRS The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (M270 MLRS) is an American-developed armored, self-propelled, multiple rocket launcher. The U.S. Army variant of the MLRS vehicle is based on the chassis of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. The first M270s wer ...
launcher. It was first unveiled at the ILA 2022 show in Berlin. The JFS-M is based around the design of MBDA's RC100 small remote carrier, which the company is developing as part of the French, Germany and Spanish Future Combat Air System project.


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