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The Katyusha (Russian: Катю́ша, IPA: [kɐˈtʲuʂə] ⓘ) is a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World War II. Multiple rocket launchers such as these deliver explosives to a target area more intensively than conventional artillery, but with lower accuracy and requiring a longer time to reload.
Katyusha is a diminutive of the Russian name Ekaterina or ... Katyusha rocket launcher, Soviet rocket launcher of World War II, named after the song; ...
The Americans mounted tubular launchers atop M4 Sherman tanks to create the T34 Calliope rocket launching tank, only used in small numbers, as their closest equivalent to the Katyusha. The Germans began using a towed six-tube multiple rocket launcher during World War II, the Nebelwerfer, called the "Screaming Mimi" by the Allies. The system was ...
The famous Katyusha rocket launcher of World War II; A room dedicated to the Kalashnikov AK-47 and its designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov. Array of Cold War era artillery pieces, anti-aircraft systems, armored vehicles, and missiles
Katyusha rocket launcher; T. TOS-1 This page was last edited on 25 August 2019, at 23:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
In June 1938, RNII began developing a multiple rocket launcher based on the RS-132 rocket. [13] Gvay led a team of designers and engineers to build multiple prototype launchers firing the modified 132 mm M-132 rockets over the sides of ZIS-5 trucks. The trucks proved to be unstable, as a solution to this V.N. Galkovskiy proposed mounting the ...
A World War II Katyusha rocket launcher, mounted on a ZiS-6 truck.. Pre-war research programmes into military rocket technology by many of the major powers led to the introduction of a number of rocket artillery systems with fixed or mobile launchers, often capable of firing a number of rockets in a single salvo.
The Type 63 multiple rocket launcher is a towed, 12-tube, 107mm rocket launcher produced by the People's Republic of China in the early 1960s and later exported and manufactured globally. Although no longer serving with active infantry units, the Type 63 is still in People's Liberation Army service with specialized formations such as mountain ...