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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.
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
During the early World War II, the ZIS-6 was used as the chassis of the original BM-13 Katyusha multiple rocket launcher by the Red Army, nicknamed "Stalin's Organ" by German soldiers. The truck chassis was equipped with several different versions of the launcher. Later though, the American-produced Studebaker took over as the predominant ...
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 ...
Langemak and other participants in the creation of the Katyusha rocket launcher received official recognition only in 1991. By decree of President Mikhail Gorbachev , dated 21 June 1991, Kleymyonov, Langemak, Vasily Luzhin, Boris Petropavlovsky [ ru ] , Boris Slonimer, and Nikolai Tikhomirov were posthumously awarded the title of Hero of ...
Rocket artillery. Katyusha rocket launcher (BM-8, BM-13, BM-31) BM-14; BM-21 Grad; BM-24; 2K6 Luna; 9K52 Luna-M; 9K57 Uragan 220 mm multiple rocket launcher; 9K58 Smerch 300 mm multiple rocket launcher; 9K59 Prima 122 mm multiple rocket launcher [11] TOS-1 220mm multiple rocket launcher
The rocket - the 8 cm Raketen Sprenggranate - was a simple cordite fueled, fin-stabilized, 78 mm (3.1 in) diameter, high-explosive rocket patterned closely on the Russian M-8. The body was simple and inexpensive to produce due to the use of stamped sheet metal components, unlike the more expensive machined venturis used by spin-stabilized ...
A battery of Katyusha launchers fires at German forces during the Battle of Stalingrad, 6 October 1942 8 cm Raketen-Vielfachwerfer launcher mounted on a SOMUA MCG. The Waffen-SS decided to copy the Soviet 82-millimetre (3.2 in) M-8 Katyusha rocket launcher as the 24-rail 8 cm Raketen-Vielfachwerfer. Its fin-stabilized rockets were cheaper and ...