Multiple Rocket launchers

The multiple rocket launchers or LRM is a system of weapon assembled on a frame of tank or Camion consisted of a battery of Lance-roquettes.

The most famous specimen is the Katioucha Soviet used during the Second world war and called “Organ of Stalin”.

The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System or M270 MLRS is the multiple rocket launcher of the US Army. It is able to draw from the rockets at a distance higher than 42 km. The MLRS was developed on the basis of GSRS by the the United Kingdom, the the United States of America, the Germany and the France.

Characteristics of the MLRS

  • Crew: 3 men (pilot, gunner, chief of machine)
  • Gauge: 227 mm
  • Mass of the launcher: 25.191 kg
  • Maximum speed: 72 km/h (on road)
  • Length of the rocket: 3,94 m
  • Mass of the rocket: 308 kg
  • Many grenades per M26 rocket: 644
  • maximum Distance from shooting: 32 km (M26 rocket)
  • Lasted of the sequence of shooting: 12 rockets in 1 minute
  • Service entrance: 1982 (US Army)
  • First use: 1991 (War of the Gulf)

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