Due to the continuing clashes in different parts of the world television screens continually broadcast news reports of a particular hotspot.And very often heard disturbing reports of fighting, during which actively involves various multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS).A man is in no way linked to the army or the military, it is difficult to navigate in a wide variety of all kinds of military equipment, so in this article, we describe a simple man in the street about these death machines as:
- Heavy ognemёtnaya system on the base of the tank (CBT) - Reactivemultiple rocket launchers "Pinocchio" (rarely used, but highly effective weapon).
- multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) "Castle" - is widely used weapons of mass destruction.
- modernize and improve "sister" MLRS "Grad" - multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) "Tornado-G" (which the media and ordinary citizens are often referred to as "Typhoon" for use in a combat vehicle chassis of the truck "Typhoon").
- multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) "Hurricane" - a powerful weapon with greater range, used for the defeat almost any purpose.
- no analogues in the world, unique, causing awe and apply for total annihilation of multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) "Smerch".
"Pinocchio" from the infamous tale
In relatively distant 1971 in the USSR, the engineers of the "Design Bureau of Transport Machinery", located in the Omsk, presented another masterpiece of military power.It was hard ognemёtnaya multiple rocket launchers "Pinocchio" (TOSZO).The creation and subsequent improvement of this complex ognemёtnogo stored classified as "top secret".Development lasted for 9 years, and in 1980 the military complex, which is a kind of tandem T-72 tanks and a launcher with 24 runners, was finally approved and delivered to the Armed Forces of the Soviet Army.
"Pinocchio": application
TOSZO "Pinocchio" is used for arson and considerable damage:
- equipment of the enemy (except armored);
- high-rise buildings and other construction projects;
- various protective structures;
- manpower.
MLRS (TOC) "Pinocchio": description
As multiple launch rocket systems "Grad" and "Uragan" TOSZO "Pinocchio" was first used in Afghanistan and in the second Chechen war.According to the data of 2014, these combat vehicles have military forces of Russia, Iraq, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.
multiple rocket launchers "Pinocchio" has such characteristics:
- Weight CBT with a full set for combat is about 46 tons.
- length "Pinocchio" - 6.86 meters, width - 3.46 m, height - 2.6 meters.
- caliber shells is 220 mm (22 cm).
- used for firing rockets uncontrolled, which can not be controlled after they are issued.
- greatest distance shooting - 13.6 kilometers.
- maximum lesion area after making a volley - 4 hectares.
- number of charges and the rail - 24 pieces.
- Aimed volley made from the cab with a special fire control system, which consists of a laser range finder and sight, tilt sensor and ballistic computer.
- shells to complete ROSZO after spending bursts performed by transport and charging (TLV) 9T234-2 car model, with crane and charging.
- manage "Pinocchio" 3 people.
As can be seen from the characteristics, only one volley of "Pinocchio" is able to convert 4 hectares in a blazing inferno.Impressive power, is not it?
Precipitation in the form of "Castle"
In 1960, the monopoly of the USSR for the production of multiple rocket launchers and other weapons of mass destruction NGO "Alloy" launched another secret project, and began to develop a completely new at the time MLRS called"Grad".Corrections lasted 3 years, and joined the Soviet Army entered the MRLS in 1963, but that has not stopped improving it, it continued until 1988.
"Grad": application
As MLRS "Hurricane" multiple rocket launchers "Grad" showed in a fight so good results that, in spite of his "advanced age", continues to be widely used today."Castle" is used for applying a very impressive strike on:
- artillery batteries;
- any military equipment, including armored;
- manpower;
- command posts;
- military and industrial facilities;
- air defense systems.
addition to the sun of the Russian Federation, the system of reactive volley fire "Grad" has in service virtually all countries, including almost all the continents of the globe.The greatest number of combat vehicles of this type in the US, Hungary, Sudan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Germany, Egypt, India, Kazakhstan, Iran, Cuba, Yemen.Multiple rocket launchers of Ukraine also contain 90 units of "Castle".
MLRS "Grad": description
multiple launch rocket systems "Grad" has the following characteristics:
- total weight of MLRS "Grad", ready to fight and ukompletovannoy all projectiles - 13.7 tons.
- MLRS length - 7.35 meters, width - 2.4 meters, height - 3.09 meters.
- caliber shells is 122 mm (just over 12 cm).
- used for firing the rocket base 122 mm caliber and shrapnel shells blasting explosives, chemical, incendiary and smoke warhead.
- firing range MLRS "Grad" - from 4 to 42 kilometers.
- maximum lesion area after making a volley - 14.5 hectares.
- number of charges and the rail - 40 pieces.
- One salvo takes only 20 seconds.
- fully recharge MLRS "Grad" lasts about 7 minutes.
- reactive system is in the deployed position by no more than 3.5 minutes.
- Recharge MRL is only possible with the use of transport-charging machine.
- sight is realized by means of the gun panorama.
- manage "Castle" 3 people.
"Grad" - a multiple rocket launchers, the characteristics of which in our time getting a perfect score in the military.For all time of its existence it was used in the Afghan war, clashes between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, in both Chechen wars, during the war in Libya, South Ossetia and Syria, as well as in the civil war in the Donbass (Ukraine), broke out in 2014year.
Attention!Approaching "Tornado"
"Tornado-G" (as stated above, the MRL is sometimes called erroneously "Typhoon", so for convenience, here are the names of the two) - a system of multiple rocket launchers, which is a modernized version of the MLRS "Grad".On the creation of this powerful hybrid working engineers design factory "Fusion". "Development began in 1990 and lasted eight years. For the first time the possibility and power of the reactive system demonstrated in 1998 on the training ground near Orenburg, after which it was decided to still further improve theMLRS. To get the final result, developers within the next 5 years improved the "Tornado-G" ("Typhoon"). The system salvo has been credited to the armament of the Russian Federation in 2013. At this point in time, this war machine only in service of the Russian Federation. "Tornado-G" ("Typhoon") - a system of multiple rocket launchers which analogues nowhere.
"Tornado": application
MLRS used in the battle to crush such purposes as:
- artillery;
- all kinds of equipment of the enemy;
- military and industrial facilities;
- missile systems.
MLRS "Tornado-G" ("Typhoon"): description
"Tornado-G" ("Typhoon") - a system of multiple rocket launchers,which is due to the enhanced capacity of ammunition, and a greater range of a built-in satellite guidance has surpassed its so-called "big sister" - MLRS "Grad" - 3 times.
Features:
- MRL Weight fully loaded is 15.1 tons.
- length "Tornado-G" - 7.35 meters, width - 2.4 meters, height - 3 meters.
- caliber shells is 122 mm (12.2 cm).
- MLRS "Tornado-G" is universal in that, in addition to the base projectiles from the MLRS "Grad", you can use a new generation of ammunition with detachable combat cumulative elements filled with exploding cluster members, as well as high-explosive shells.
- range shot under favorable landscape conditions as high as 100 kilometers.
- maximum area was destroyed after making a volley - 14.5 hectares.
- number of charges and the rail - 40 pieces.
- sight is carried out by means of several hydraulic actuators.
- One volley performed for 20 seconds.
- deadly machine is ready to work for 6 minutes.
- Shooting is performed using remote installation (control) and fully automated fire control system, housed in a cabin.
- Crew - 2 people.
Ferocious "Hurricane"
As it happened with the majority of MRL, the story "Hurricane" began in the Soviet Union, or rather, in 1957."Fathers" MLRS "Hurricane" became Ganichev Alexander N. Kalachnikov and Yuri.And first constructed system itself, and the second has developed a fighting machine.
"Hurricane": application
MLRS "Hurricane" is designed to break such goals as:
- artillery batteries;
- any enemy vehicles, including armored;
- living force;
- all kinds of construction projects;
- zenith rocket complexes;
- tactical missiles.
MLRS "Hurricane": description
the first time, "Hurricane" was used in the Afghan war.It is said that the Mujahideen before the swoon feared the MLRS and even gave her the terrible nickname - "Satan-pipe".
In addition, multiple rocket launchers "Hurricane", the characteristics of which evoke the respect of soldiers, visited the clashes in South Africa.That is what the military spodviglo African continent to make developments in the MRL.
Currently this MRL is in service with countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Czech Republic, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Poland, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Yemen, Kyrgyzstan, Guinea, Syria, Tajikistan, Eritrea,Slovakia.
multiple rocket launchers "Hurricane" has the following characteristics:
- MRL Weight fully loaded and ready for battle - 20 tons.
- length "Hurricane" - 9.63 meters, width - 2.8 meters, height - 3,225 meters.
- caliber shells is 220 mm (22 cm).You can use shells with a monolithic high-explosive warhead with high-explosive components, with anti-tank and anti-personnel mines.
- range is 8-35 kilometers.
- maximum lesion area after making a volley - 29 hectares.
- number of charges and the rail - 16 pieces, the guides themselves are able to rotate 240 degrees.
- One salvo done in 30 seconds.
- fully recharge MLRS "Hurricane" lasts about 15 minutes.
- fighting vehicle moves into the firing position in just 3 minutes.
- Recharge MRL is only possible in cooperation with TK machine.
- Shooting is performed either with a portable control panel, or directly from the cockpit.
- crew of 6 people.
As multiple rocket launchers "Smerch", "Hurricane" works in any military environment, as well as when the enemy is using a nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.In addition, the complex is able to operate at any time, irrespective of season and temperature fluctuations."Hurricane" is able to properly participate in the fighting on the cold (-40 ° C), and in exhausting heat of (50 ° C).The destination MLRS "Hurricane" could be delivered by sea, air or rail.
Deadly "Smerch"
multiple launch rocket systems "Smerch", the characteristics of which are superior to all existing MRL in the world, was established in 1986 and put into service the military forces of the USSR in 1989.In this powerful death machine to this day there are no analogues in any of the countries of the world.
"Tornado": the use of MLRS
This is rarely used, mainly for the total annihilation:
- artillery batteries of all types;
- absolutely any military equipment;
- manpower;
- communications centers and command posts;
- construction projects, including the military and industrial;
- air defense systems.
MLRS "Smerch": description
MLRS "Smerch" is available in the armed forces of Russia, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Algeria, Venezuela, Peru, China, Georgia, Kuwait.
multiple launch rocket systems "Smerch" has the following characteristics:
- Weight MLRS is intact and in a combat situation - 43.7 tons.
- length "Cyclone" - 12.1 meters, width - 3.05 m, height - 3.59 meters.
- caliber shells impressive - 300 millimeters.
- used for firing rockets cluster with integrated control system and an additional motor that adjusts the direction of the charge towards the goal.Purpose of shells may be different: from fragmentation to temperature and pressure.
- distance firing of MLRS "Smerch" - from 20 to 120 kilometers.
- maximum lesion area after making a volley - 67.2 hectares.
- number of charges and the rail - 12 pieces.
- One volley performed for 38 seconds.
- Full retrofitted MLRS "Smerch" projectiles lasts about 20 minutes.
- To combat exploits "Smerch" is ready for a maximum of 3 minutes.
- Recharge MRL is only the interaction with TK-machine equipped with a crane and charging.
- crew of 3 people.
MLRS "Smerch" - this is the perfect weapon of mass destruction that can operate in almost any temperature conditions, day and night.In addition, the shells fired MLRS "Smerch", falling vertically, thereby easily destroying roofs and armored vehicles.Shelter from the "Smerch" is almost impossible, MLRS burns and destroys everything in its radius of action.Of course, this is not the power of a nuclear bomb, but still one who owns "Smerch", owns the world.
idea of "world peace" - it's a dream.And as long as there are MLRS, unattainable ...
