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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.
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, the RNII began developing a multiple rocket launcher based on the RS-132 rocket. [10] In August 1939, the completed product was the BM-13 / Katyusha rocket launcher. Towards the end of 1938 the first significant large scale testing of the rocket launchers took place, 233 rockets of various types were used.
The BM-24 is a multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. It is capable of launching 240mm rockets from 12 launch tubes. It is capable of launching 240mm rockets from 12 launch tubes. Versions of the BM-24 have been mounted on the ZIS-151 and ZIL-157 6×6 Truck chassis and the AT-S tracked artillery tractor, forming the BM-24T from ...
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 ...
They then manufactured mortar launchers and the 82mm and 120mm ammunition to be used with them. ... producing rockets similar to the Katyusha [rocket artillery first used by the Soviet Union in ...
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 ...
A gunman accused of planning a mass shooting had designed a rocket launcher to fire a chemical weapon at police, a court heard. Reed Wischhusen, 32, said the ballistic projector would contain a ...