With the Clones having fielded CSM for years and now the Dinos buying the technology New Sparta has still yet to make its own interstellar missile the LRM operational. LRM-20 has successfully passed pre-deployment tests but now there are delays with building silos for it on Proxima 7 which means a planned entry into service in late 2117 (i.e. about now) has slipped to mid-2118.
NS Commander Knobhead said it was simply not acceptable that LRM is still not operational. He called the LRM programme a complete nightmare (in less polite language to be honest) as years have been wasted with "trying to run marathons before we can crawl". The problem with LRM is that the DDS (as it was at the time) tried to leapfrog over CSM by several generations and go straight to a much longer ranged missile. This has cost years in delays. Since DDS Commander Firefly refocussed the programme around the much more modest LRM-20 in 2114 finally has there been progress.
Knobhead said that LRM-20 would be operational next year and that a mobile launcher would be developed for 2119. The longer-ranged and worm-drive equipped LRM-100 and LRM-W projects are said to have been "shelved" for the time being.
