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[[File:HIMARS.PNG|right|250px|thumb|US HIMARS deployed to [[Ukraine]].]]
 
[[File:HIMARS.PNG|right|250px|thumb|US HIMARS deployed to [[Ukraine]].]]
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The '''HIMARS''' ('''High Mobility Artillery Rocket System''') '''M270''' is an American manufactured [[multiple launch rocket system]], or MLRS.
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The '''M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System''' ('''HIMARS''', pronounced "high-mars") is an American manufactured [[multiple launch rocket system]].  It is mounted on an M1140 medium truck frame and carries one pod which can either launch six Guided Multiple Launch rockets or one ATACMS missile.
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[[Lockheed Martin]] which builds the HIMAR system and its missiles has a capacity to produce 10,000 GMLRS missiles per year for HIMARS, or ~800 per month. The US has about 1000+ HIMARs launchers, or roughly an ability to launch 100 missiles per year, per unit, if all systems were committed to a fight.
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[[Lockheed Martin]]'s Missiles and Fire Control division builds the HIMARS vehicle, the pod, and its accompanying missiles.
    
The Russian Hurricane M1 has been dubbed the 'HIMAR killer'.
 
The Russian Hurricane M1 has been dubbed the 'HIMAR killer'.
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