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Thursday Night MLRS

by on February 14, 2008 in Tech

For no particular reason, here is a BM-21 in action:

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  1. Scott says:
    February 15, 2008 at 8:11 am

    Are troops in the cab of that thing when it fires?

  2. SSG Jeff (USAR) says:
    February 15, 2008 at 8:37 am

    No, the troops stay safely away from it while it’s launching. I think ours is set up to have the troops stay in the thing, but it’s got an armored cab as well.

    What I’ve never actually seen, and would be interested in, is footage of the impact area when all those rockets hit.

  3. SSG Jeff (USAR) says:
    February 15, 2008 at 8:39 am

    Ah, my mistake – according to the Wikipedia entry, it can be fired from the cab.

    I suspect it’s not a popular option though.

  4. olga says:
    February 15, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    I remember those, ‘raketnye sistemy zalpovogo ognya’, the reports on the impact area were gruesome, with all the details of the dead animals, ugh… obviously, no animals were used for the real-life army exercises, could not have all those conscripts puking their guts out…

  5. Scott says:
    February 15, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    From the video it almost looks like the boys drive it up, point it in a direction, set a fuse and run. Which looks like a pretty reasonable idea, it’s not exactly all that robust looking.