
The Army wants the AHSS missile to offer more range than the 1,000-km-plus (621.3-mi.) reach of the Precision Strike Missile Increment 4, of which the contract was stripped from Lockheed and reopened to competitive bidding earlier this year.
Army officials in late 2024 revealed plans to develop a PRSM Increment 5 with greater range and the ability to launch from an autonomous vehicle. But the DEVCOM spokesperson clarified that AHSS represents a different concept, including an option to be launched from a crewed HIMARS.
The Army ran an F-250 truck through semi-autonomous mine-clearing and drone-defense tests during its Project Sandhills 2.0 prototyping series last week ahead of a continued assessment of the vehicle at the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, CA, in October. The Army fitted breaching capabilities onto the back of a Ford F-250 truck integrated with Forterra’s autonomy stack for the exercise, based at Ft. Bragg, NC. The truck included Edda, an artificial intelligence-powered counter-drone 12-gauge shotgun system from 9 Mothers