How to recognise rocket artillery
11 rocket artillery in Spotrep’s field guide, each with a photo, where it comes from, who uses it and the details that tell it apart from the rest.
Practise in Classic- BM-21 GradRocket artillery · Soviet Union
Six-wheeled Ural truck with a bank of 40 thin launch tubes on the back.
- BM-27 UraganRocket artillery · Soviet Union
Eight-wheeled ZIL truck with a launcher of 16 thick tubes in three layers (6-6-4) at the rear, pointing backwards when travelling.
- RM-70Rocket artillery · Czechoslovakia
Eight-wheeled Tatra truck with 40 thin Grad-type tubes and a second pack of 40 reload rockets behind the cab.
- TOS-1ARocket artillery · Russia
Tank chassis carrying a large box-shaped rocket launcher in place of a turret.
- WR-40 LangustaRocket artillery · Poland
122 mm Grad-type launcher with 40 tubes on a Polish Jelcz six-wheeled truck with a modern armoured cab.
- No photo yetASTROS IIRocket artillery · Brazil
Six-wheeled truck with a large box launcher behind the cab that takes rocket containers of different calibres.
- No photo yetBM-30 SmerchRocket artillery · Soviet Union
Very long eight-wheeled MAZ truck carrying 12 large rocket tubes in a block that extends past the rear.
- No photo yetK239 ChunmooRocket artillery · South Korea
Eight-wheeled truck (Jelcz in Poland) with two box-shaped launcher pods side by side behind the cab.
- No photo yetM142 HIMARSRocket artillery · USA
Six-wheeled truck carrying a single box-shaped launcher pod behind the armoured cab.
- No photo yetM270 MLRSRocket artillery · USA
Tracked chassis with the cab at the front and a large launcher box holding two pods behind it.
- No photo yetPULSRocket artillery · Israel
Truck-mounted launcher with two large interchangeable rocket pods side by side behind the cab, like a bigger HIMARS.
