Oshkosh Unveils Unmanned Multiple Launch Rocket System on ROGUE Chassis

25 March, 2025 ROGUE-Fire with MFOM missile launcher. Source: Oshkosh Defense. Oshkosh Defense has unveiled the ROGUE-Fire unmanned multiple launch rocket system on the ROGUE chassis.

The company announced this in a press release. The presentation will take place at the AUSA exhibition, which will be held from March 25 to 27 in Huntsville, Alabama. According to the published images, the ROGUE-Fire chassis will be displayed with a MLRS Family of Munitions (MFOM) launcher.

This system is capable of employing both unguided and precision-guided missiles, including MLRS, GMLRS, ER GMLRS, GLSDB, ATACMS and PrSM.

Loading a container with M30A1 missiles into an M142 HIMARS launcher of the 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, June 2020. Photo credits: DVIDS.

ROGUE

The ROGUE (Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary) is an unmanned modification of the army's JLTV that can be equipped with various types of missile weapons.

It is primarily intended for expeditionary units of the United States Marine Corps. One of the members of this family is the NMESIS, equipped with two launch containers for NSM (Naval Strike Missile) anti-ship missiles.

The NMESIS launcher.

Photo credits: USMC

The US Marines plan to use NMESIS in combined missile divisions, which will also be armed with M142 HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, or, apparently, will use ROGUE with MFOM. In December 2024, it became known that the 3rd Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division, stationed in Hawaii, received the first such system. Earlier, in July 2023, the U.S.

Marine Corps publicly unveiled the unmanned system for Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles for the first time.

Tomahawk unmanned self-propelled launchers of the 11th Marine Regiment, July 21, 2023.

This system, also based on ROGUE, is called the Long Range Fires Launcher.

Unmanned HIMARS

In May 2024, it was reported that the United States had conducted the first firing tests of the unmanned launcher of the HIMARS missile system. The autonomous version of the missile launcher is abbreviated AML (Autonomous Multi-domain Launcher). The AML prototype is based on the M142 HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System), but it is distinguished by the absence of a cockpit for the crew.

The engine compartment and controls are located in the front.

The unmanned AML (Autonomous Multi-domain Launcher) launcher.

United States, April, 2024. Photo credits: US Army

The system can autonomously move along a predefined route between specified points, including as part of a convoy. If necessary, the operator can control the AML launcher while being close to it or at a short distance from it.

The unit is also designed to use MFOM family containers.