The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System or M270 MLRS is an American armored, self-propelled, multiple rocket launcher. The MLRS has since been used in numerous military engagements, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In March 2007, the British Ministry of Defence decided to send a troop of MLRS to support ongoing operations in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand; they would use newly developed guided munitions, GMLRS.

The first use of the GMLRS was in September 2005 in Iraq, when two rockets were fired in Tal Afar over 50 km and hit insurgent strongholds, killing 48 terrorists.

In April 2011, the first modernized MLRS II and M31 GMLRS rocket were handed over to the German Army's Artillery School in Idar Oberstein.
The German Army operates the M31 rocket up to a range of 90 kilometers.

During the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war the United kingdom has announced that the country will send the system to ukraine as part of military aid.
Concerns were raised that this system could be used to hit targets inside Russia.

However British Prime Minister Johnson has said the MLRS “would enable them to defend themselves against this very brutal Russian artillery, and that’s where the world needs to go."

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