Will U.S. Army Missile Buys Mean Fewer U.S. Air Force Bombers?
Steve Trimble answers: It is fair to say that the U.S. Army is on a missile-buying spree. Since the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in December 1987, the service’s missile inventory had been limited to the 300-km (186-mi.) range of the MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System and 70-km range of the M-270 Multiple Launch Rocket System. But the U.S. and Russia withdrew from the treaty on Aug. 2, 2019, freeing the Army to fill the gap in its arsenal for ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with conventional warheads and ranges between 500-5,000 km. The baseline ...
Source: aviationweek.com