French 🇫🇷 LRU and Romanian 🇷🇴 HIMARS fire from the shores of the Black Sea

The NATO French-led Battlegroup in Romania - "Mission Aigle" - conducted a live fire exercise on the shores of the Black Sea, at the Capu Midia firing range on the 9th of February 2023.
During this live-fire exercise a French LRU unit and a Romanian HIMARS unit fired multiple rockets towards floating targets on the sea surface.
Video curtesy of État-major des armées / France - www.defense.go...
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According to Militaryleak.com, the LRU (Lance Roquette Unitaire - Unitary Launch Rocket) is a European upgrade of the american M270A1 MLRS. The new LRU units have a new firing system and rockets. LRU is equipped with a new fire control system (EFCS - European Fire Control System) designed by Airbus Defense and Space. The first upgraded LRU was delivered to the French army in February 2014.
The LRU program addresses the need to conduct all-weather precision ground strikes metric, up to 70 km.
The French upgrade to its M270s is meant so that the Army can fire the 227 mm M31 high explosive (HE) unitary warhead Guided MLRS (GMLRS).
Compared with the earlier French MLRS rockets, which were armed with submunitions, the M31 features a single 90 kg HE warhead; includes GPS and inertial navigation system guidance to provide a circular error of probability of less than 10 m; and doubles the missile’s range to 70 km. EFCS enables firing of M31, M31A1, M32, AT2 and 110 mm rockets, but not of M26, M26A1 and M30, so as to ensure full compliance with the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The LRU uses the new rocket M31 also called GUMLRS (Guided Unitary MLRS).
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Romania bought three HIMARS systems from the US in 2019, part of a 1.5 billion dollar deal. Each system comes with 18 launcher vehicles, 54 in total.
The first Romanian HIMARS system became operational in 2021 and executed its first live-fire exercise in 2022.
Besides the launchers and the command vehicles, the Romanian-US contract includes 81 M31A1 Unitary rockets, 81 M30A1 Alternative warhead rockets and 54 ATACMS long range rockets that can reach targets as far as 300 kilometers away.

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