Katyusha rocket launcher
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The Katyusha 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 tha
BM-13 Katyusha multiple rocket launcher, based on a ZIS-6 truck.
A battery of Katyusha launchers fires at German forces during the Battle of Stalingrad, 6 October 1942
Katyusha salvo during the Vistula–Oder offensive, January 1945
BM-13N Katyusha on a Lend-Lease Studebaker US6 .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}2+1⁄2-ton 6×6 truck, at the UMMC Museum Complex,
BM-21 Grad
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The BM-21 "Grad" is a self-propelled 122 mm multiple rocket launcher designed in the Soviet Union. The system and the M-21OF rocket were first developed in the early 1960s, and saw their first combat
Katyusha rocket launcher
…the nickname Katyusha is also applied to newer truck-mounted post-Soviet – in addition to non-Soviet – multiple-rocket launchers, notably the common BM-21 Grad and its derivatives. Initially, concerns for secrecy kept the military designation of the Katyushas from being known by the soldiers who operated them…
A Russian BM-21-1 on display in Saint Petersburg in May 2009
A BM-21 launch vehicle.
The 9P138 launch vehicle of the Grad-1 multiple rocket launcher system.
A BM-21V VDV variant.