NEW YORK, February 28. /TASS/. Lockheed Martin's mobile rocket launcher plant in Camden, Arkansas is set to gear up production of its HIMARS multiple rocket launcher system to 96 a year, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing statements from company executives.

"We've already met with our long lead supply chain to plan for increasing production to 96 of these units a year," the news agency quoted a Lockheed Martin executive as saying. In early 2022, it was producing 48 HIMARS units a year. Since then, the company has ramped up production to 60 units a year.

The US supplies these weapons to the Kiev regime. HIMARS ammunition, in particular, was part of a new $2 billion US military aid package to Ukraine announced by the Pentagon on February 24.