US Army wants to aggressively amass cheap rockets

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — While the U.S. Army has exquisitefirepower with its expensive long-range precision fire systems, it also wants to amass cheap rockets to target drones or overwhelm an enemy.

“If you’re familiar with the rocket pods we have for [guided multiple launch rocket systems], I would like to fill those rocket pods with 50 to 100 rockets,” Gen. James Rainey, Army Futures Command commander, said Tuesday at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama. “What we could put in that box … it’s not as good as [guided multiple launch rocket systems], but it can visit a lot of hate on the enemy in the right conditions.”