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Precision Strike Missile

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Sep 10, 2026

Lindsay AlexanderHOST
1:43
So moving on then from, I suppose, our, our little people to the bigger issues of the world.
Lindsay AlexanderHOST
1:48
This week the US has been using controversial new missiles in attacks on Iran, the Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile indeed.
Lindsay AlexanderHOST
1:56
Unlike other munitions, which generally detonate when or after they hit a target, the PrSM is designed to explode shortly before it hits the ground, propelling tens of thousands of deadly pellets in a 360-degree direction.
Lindsay AlexanderHOST
2:11
These pellets rip through anything in their path.
Lindsay AlexanderHOST
2:14
Three missiles that struck the southern city of Lahij on February 28th killed civilians as far as 164 feet, or 50 meters, from where they detonated and caused damage more than three times further away, airways found.
Doug DiamondHOST
8:34
and two women, while as many as 170 others were injured.
Doug DiamondHOST
8:38
The findings are particularly significant because these PRSM, precision strike missiles, are designed not simply to destroy a target through a conventional blast, like you would normally have, but to detonate shortly before reaching the ground and disperse tens of thousands of metal pellets in a 360-degree pattern.
Doug DiamondHOST
9:01
So you see what's happening here? It's almost like giant-sized birdshot that precedes the missile's explosion.
Doug DiamondHOST
9:09
So the missile's going to impact in a certain place, but before that happens, it actually explodes and all these huge projectiles come out of it and take out a bunch of people as the missile's flying toward this destination.
Doug DiamondHOST
9:43
Air Wars said the destructive pattern left by the munitions was visible across streets, buildings, and vehicles in Le Merde.
Doug DiamondHOST
9:51
Rather than create a large crater normally associated with many conventional missile strikes, the aftermath showed thousands of small impact marks consistent with the dispersal of fragmentation pellets.
Doug DiamondHOST
10:04
A weapon designed for long-range precision, these PRSMs, again, precision strike missiles, are manufactured by...
Doug DiamondHOST
10:14
Lockheed Martin, of course, and is launched from the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS.
Behnam Ben TalebluGUEST
67:25
Because while we hit the launchers, and the Israelis hit the launchers too, and we hit the defense industrial base, the regime could still dig out, given the natural geography that it had, and it could still fire missiles all the way up until the last few hours of the war.
Behnam Ben TalebluGUEST
67:39
What we were able to attrite is the rate of fire, which shows that they were just as concerned about their magazine depth as we were concerned about the depth of our munitions and interceptors that we would have to either defend like Patriots and Thads, or to attack, like ATACOM's PRSM missiles or Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles, for example.
Behnam Ben TalebluGUEST
67:59
So the mixed record of 2026 comes to the fore, but if there was one achievement, it is the above-ground production facilities being destroyed for solid propellant missile.
Behnam Ben TalebluGUEST
68:10
Now, there was a more recent Jerusalem Post report that is unverified that has allegedly spoken to some Israeli officials that talks about Iran, again, building back much better and much faster.
speaker_0HOST
6:38
It is worth distinguishing this incident from an earlier one this war has already examined.
speaker_0HOST
6:43
Independent investigations by the New York Times, the BBC, and outside munitions analysts previously concluded that United States Precision Strike Missile was responsible for a deadly strike on a volleyball hall in Lambert on the opening day of the war in February.
speaker_0HOST
6:58
No comparable independent findings have yet been published on the Qustak wedding strike, and it should be treated as an active, unresolved allegation rather than a settled fact.
speaker_0HOST
7:07
The Iranian Red Crescent Society said it had written to the International Criminal Court's Office of the Prosecutor seeking legal action over the incident.
Ben MeiselasHOST
13:26
Um, and that this took place at the beginning of the war.
Ben MeiselasHOST
13:30
Um, US tested experimental tungsten pellet missiles on a female volleyball team of young girls.
Ben MeiselasHOST
13:38
A New York Times analysis of security camera videos, aftermath photos, and satellite imagery, and munition experts found that US made precision strike missiles, the PRSMs, struck a sports hall used at the time by a female volleyball team in Lahmadr in Southern Iran on the first day of the conflict.
Ben MeiselasHOST
13:59
Iranian officials reported 21 killed.
Ben MeiselasHOST
14:03
Particularly damning is one of the videos that showed the explosion over the sports hall.
Ben MeiselasHOST
14:36
Lockheed Martin's own product material illustrates this preform fragmentation effect.
Ben MeiselasHOST
14:42
This is what it looked like, the tungsten pellets from the US strike on Lahmadr that took place on February 28th.
Ben MeiselasHOST
14:50
The PRSMs designed to detonate above the target and disperse thousands of these pellets that slaughtered the girls playing volleyball.
Ben MeiselasHOST
12:38
Additional images and video build on an earlier analysis, which the Pentagon has disputed, showing precision strike missiles hit a sports hall, a volleyball hall, volleyball hall, and residential areas in the Iranian city of Lamerd, um, and that this took place at the beginning of the war.
Ben MeiselasHOST
13:00
Um, US-tested experimental tungsten pellet missiles on a female volleyball team of young girls.
Ben MeiselasHOST
13:08
A New York Times analysis of security camera videos, aftermath photos, and satellite imagery, and munition experts found that US-made precision strike missiles, the PRSMs, struck a sports hall used at the time by a female volleyball team in Lamerd in southern Iran on the first day of the conflict.
Ben MeiselasHOST
13:29
Iranian officials reported 21 killed.
Ben MeiselasHOST
13:33
Particularly damning is one of the videos that showed the explosion over the sports hall.
Ben MeiselasHOST
14:06
Lockheed Martin's own product material illustrates this preformed fragmentation effect.
Ben MeiselasHOST
14:12
This is what it looked like, the tungsten pellets from the US strike on Lamerd that took place on February 28th.
Ben MeiselasHOST
14:20
The PRSMs designed to detonate above the target and disperse thousands of these pellets that slaughtered the girls playing volleyball.
BrianNARRATOR
46:44
It has been touted by the manufacturer as the ballistic missile of the future, lethal, long-range, and pinpoint.
BrianNARRATOR
46:53
Lockheed Martin's precision strike missile has the U.S. military investing billions to update its arsenal.
BrianNARRATOR
47:01
but a close look at what is believed to be its first use in combat on the first day of the Iran war highlights the potential peril of deploying this weapon near population centers because it appears to spray pellets over a wide area, according to a review by the conflict monitor air wars and interviews with weapons experts and former defense officials.
BrianNARRATOR
47:29
Three missiles that struck the southern city of Lombard on February 28 killed civilians as far as 164 feet from where they detonated and caused damage more than three times farther away, Air Force found.
Ben ThomasHOST
0:59
And Julia Frankel reports a new U.S. missile appears to have left a wide path of death and destruction in Iran.
Julia FrankelCORRESPONDENT
1:05
The U.S. has spent billions on a new ballistic munition called the Precision Strike Missile, or PRISM, whose manufacturer, Lockheed Martin's knife, can travel farther and is more lethal than its predecessors.
Julia FrankelCORRESPONDENT
1:16
Airwars, a London-based conflict monitor, took a close look at what is believed to be the prism's first use in combat on the first day of the Iran war in the southern Iranian city of Limerde.
Julia FrankelCORRESPONDENT
1:27
They found that the blast killed civilians as far as 50 meters from where they detonated and caused damage more than three times further away.
Dave DeCampHOST
8:34
So the next one here, new U.S. munition used in Iran has a damage radius of 170 meters.
Dave DeCampHOST
8:39
This is a report from Air Wars about the Precision Strike Missile or the PRISM, which is a new U.S. missile that the U.S. used for the first time on February 28th, the first day of the Israeli bombing.
Dave DeCampHOST
8:50
the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign in Iran.
Dave DeCampHOST
8:53
And this is the weapon that was used in the strikes on Lomerd, an Iranian city, where a sports hall was bombed and at least 21 civilians, including at least seven children, were killed in the area.
Dave DeCampHOST
9:08
And one of the kids who was killed was a two-year-old girl.
Dave DeCampHOST
9:11
So a very horrific event.
Dave DeCampHOST
9:15
uh strike here uh and you know this is touted as a precision strike missile but this report gets into how you know the missile is designed not to strike its target but to explode right above it and then it shoots out a bunch of pellets and i think there's some pictures here of the aftermath you know you don't see a crater you see all of these like marks look like kind of uh you know from small pellets or or almost looks like a bullet holes and it's spread across a really huge area And Air Wars investigation found that there was damage from these missiles as far as 170 meters from where they exploded.
Dave DeCampHOST
9:55
I mean, that is really far.
speaker_0NARRATOR
2:31
Julia Frankel reports for AP News.
speaker_0NARRATOR
2:34
Editors note, readers may be interested in Michael W. Meyer, Precision Strike Missiles, PRSMs, and Iran War.
speaker_0NARRATOR
2:42
The U.S.
speaker_0NARRATOR
2:43
Obligation to Conduct a Legal Review of New Weapons, Just Security, April 1, 2026.

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