Each 300 mm rocket weighs about 1,764 pounds (800 ... More importantly, the new missiles are backward compatible with BM-30 Smerch launchers, allowing for the use of old launchers.

The BM-30 Smerch is a heavy multiple rocket launcher originally built in the Soviet Union. The BM-30 Smerch is a heavy multiple rocket launcher originally built in the Soviet Union. Ministry of ...

Russian forces have unleashed multiple launch rocket systems "Smerch" to target the Ukraine troops. Russian defence ministry said that units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had concentrated ...

A US Navy veteran compares the best multiple launcher rocket systems from the US and UK, detailing HIMARS and the BM-30 Smerch. More from Explainers A US Navy veteran compares the best multiple ...

MRLS and HIMARS — and newer Russian models such as the BM-30 Smerch — are the Katyusha's smarter cousins. Today's multiple rocket launchers are sophisticated, highly computerized, and more ...

FILE - An unexploded tail section of a 300mm rocket which appear to contained cluster bombs launched from a BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher is embedded in the ground after shelling on the ...

Ukrainian fighters from the 63rd Separate Mechanised Brigade Steel Lions unit tracked and destroyed a rare Russian Smerch-2 anti-submarine rocket launcher in the forests on the Lyman front using UAVs.

A photograph taken on July 3, 2022 shows an tail section of a 300mm rocket which appear to contained cluster bombs launched from a BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher embedded in the ground ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.

When Russia launched its attack in February, the Soviet-era artillery used by Ukraine's military was outranged by newer Russian weapons such as the BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher ...

African nations have been building up their military arsenals with multiple launch rocket ... on the Soviet BM-21 Grad Egypt owns one of the more advanced systems in the BM-30 Smerch Also ...