Western Australia hosts land based mostly long-ranged missile train

Two HIMARS launchers from the US Military’s seventeenth Subject Artillery Brigade are in Western Australia for Train Highball, which is able to develop how the Australian Defence Drive employs long-range land-based precision rocket and missile techniques.

Western Australia hosted a joint United States-Australian train on 29 July to discover how the Australian Defence Drive (ADF) can make use of long-range fires capabilities for each land and maritime strike.

Train Highball is a mixed Australian Joint Operations Command and US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) initiative that began on 27 July.

It used a variety of air, land, house and maritime capabilities to ship concentrating on information to a US Military Excessive Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) platoon to check long-range fires ideas.

Australian Chief of Joint Operations, Lieutenant Common Greg Bilton mentioned the train demonstrated the ADF was responding to Defence Strategic Assessment path to speed up and broaden the introduction of long-range land and maritime strike capabilities underneath Land 8113 Phases 2-4, significantly the HIMARS acquisition.

“The necessity to combine land-based long-range fires into the ADF’s operational functionality is pressing, and the shut and dynamic relationship we take pleasure in with INDOPACOM means we will adhere to Authorities path,” Lieutenant Common Bilton mentioned.

“By utilizing a US Military HIMARS strike bundle and US army transport already in Australia for Train Talisman Sabre 2023, we will speed up our understanding of projecting and using HIMARS. Train Highball can even improve US interoperability with the ADF’s concentrating on capabilities and the operational employment of land-based precision multi-domain fires.”

The train was performed from Lancelin (north of Perth) and into the Western Australia Train Space (located within the Indian Ocean to the west and southwest of Perth).

The US HIMARS Expeditionary Strike Package deal included HIMARS launchers and assist autos.