About the company:

Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American company specializing in aircraft manufacturing, aerospace engineering, shipbuilding, postal service automation, and airport logistics. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

It was created by the merger of Martin Marietta and Lockheed Corporation in 1995.

In 2006, NASA announced that it had selected Lockgid Martin to carry out a project to return to the moon.

Structure:

The structure of the company has a wide branch at the branch. Each branch has a separate division through different enterprise groups.

The activities of these groups are divided into the following areas:

• aeronautics;
• electronic systems;
• information and global systems;
• cosmos;
• other;
• joint ventures.

Production of HIMARS:

The M142 HIMARS (acronym for High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) is an American rocket artillery system. It is produced by one of the divisions of Lockheed Martin. It was developed in the late 1990s on a wheeled chassis as a system with increased mobility compared to the tracked M270 MLRS, with which it has a unified launcher and ammunition arsenal. Designed for shoot-and-run tactics.

The HIMARS truck has a mass of 16 tons, of which 5 are payloads: it carries six multiple launch rockets or one MGM-140 ATACMS missile. It is transported by C-130 aircraft.

HIMARS has in its arsenal GMLRS guided high-precision missiles with a range of up to 80 km, and the MGM-140 ATACMS missile has a range of 300 km.

The price of one HIMARS system as of 2014 was $5.1 million.