MBDA Joint Fire Support Missile

The Joint Fire Support Missile, abbreviated JFS-M, is a ground-launched cruise missile that MBDA Deutschland has been developing for the German armed forces, announced at the ILA air show in Berlin in 2022. It is meant to be fired from the pods of the MLRS and HIMARS rocket launchers, with two missiles in a standard pod, so that an M270 launcher can carry four. After a booster accelerates it away from the launcher, a turbojet engine at the rear sustains flight at between Mach 0.5 and Mach 0.9 on a low route, aimed at a maximum range of 499 kilometres, just inside the limit of the old INF treaty. Its payload bay is modular and can hold a high explosive warhead, or a smaller warhead with reconnaissance or electronic warfare equipment. MBDA works with Krauss-Maffei Wegmann on the launcher integration and with ESG on mission planning, and the design was reported as still at an early readiness level, so it counts as a project under development rather than a fielded weapon.