UK - MLRS on the front in Ukraine

 

UK's M270 tracked missile launcher system in action on the eastern front of Ukraine

US - M270 MLRS

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 Source: U.S MILITARY SUPERIOR

M270 MLRS- Multiple Launch Rocket System Weapons

The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (M270 MLRS) is an armored, self-propelled, multiple rocket launcher (a type of rocket artillery). Since the first M270s were delivered to the U.S. Army in 1983, the MLRS has been adopted by several NATO countries. MLRS was developed jointly by the United Kingdom, United States, West Germany, France and Italy, developed from the older General Support Rocket System (GSRS). The M270 MLRS weapons system is collectively known as the M270 MLRS Self-Propelled Loader/Launcher (SPLL).

US - M142 HIMARS Rocket System

Source: the Military Lovers

M142 HIMARS High Mobility Artillery Rocket System Massive Fire

The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is a light multiple rocket launcher developed in the late 1990s for the United States Army, mounted on a standard Army M1140 truck frame.

The HIMARS carries six rockets or one MGM-140 ATACMS missile on the U.S. Army's new Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) five-ton truck, and can launch the entire Multiple Launch Rocket System Family of Munitions (MFOM). HIMARS ammunition is interchangeable with the MLRS M270A1, however it is only able to carry one pod rather than the standard two for the M270 and A1 variants.

The launcher is C-130 transportable. The chassis was produced by BAE Systems Mobility & Protection Systems (formerly Armor Holdings Aerospace and Defense Group Tactical Vehicle Systems Division), the OEM of the FMTV; however, since 2010, the M1140 has been produced by the Oshkosh Corporation by their Defense division. The rocket launching system is produced by Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control. HIMARS is intended to engage and defeat artillery, air defence concentrations, trucks, and light armour and personnel carriers, as well as support troop and supply concentrations. The system launches its weapons and moves away from the area at high speed before enemy forces locate the launch site.

HIMARS rocket fire control system HIMARS retains the same self-loading and autonomous features installed on the MLRS. The improved launcher mechanical system (ILMS) upgrade and electronics of the improved fire control system (IFCS), which upgraded MLRS M270 launchers, are also fitted to HIMARS vehicles. HIMARS is capable of firing the long-range ATACMS (army tactical missile system) guided missile. The ATACMS family includes the Block I, Block IA and Block IA Unitary missiles. The Block I missile delivers 950 anti-personnel anti-material (AP/AM) baseball-sized M74 submunitions to ranges exceeding 165km. The Block IA missile range exceeds 300km by reducing the submunition payload to 300 bomblets and adding GPS guidance. The missile, with a single-burst warhead, was first deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March and April of 2003. The programme to develop the Block II missile with GPS and 13 BAT (brilliant anti-tank) submissiles and the Block IIA missile with six improved BAT submissiles was cancelled in February 2003. The high-mobility artillery rocket system carries a single six-pack of rockets on the army’s family of medium tactical vehicles (FMTV) 6×6 all-wheel drive 5t truck supplied by Armor Holdings Tactical Vehicle Systems Division (now BAE Systems Mobility & Protection Systems) in Texas. The vehicle weighs approximately 24,000lb (10,886kg) compared to more than 44,000lb (19,958kg) for the MLRS M270 launcher.

HIMARS is transportable on the C-130 aircraft, allowing the system to be moved into areas previously inaccessible to the larger C-141 and C-5 aircraft required for the M270 launch vehicle. Crew: 3: Gunner, Driver, and Launcher Chief Weigh t: 16,200 kg (35,800 lb) Length : 7 m Width : 2.4 m Heigh t: 3.2 m Vehicle Range : 480 km Road Speed : 85 km/hour Armament : 6 × 227 mm M26, M30/M31 series rockets or 1 MGM-140 ATACMS missile Caliber : 227 mm (8.9 in) Traverse : 360 Rate of fire : 1, 2, 4, All 6 Effective firing range between 2 km (1.2 mi) and 300 km (190 mi) : - 45 km with ER-MLRS rocket - 70 km with the new extended range guided rocket GMLRS - 300 km with tactical missile Maximum firing range : -- 300 km (190 mi) Armor : light Operational range : -- 480 km (298 mi) Maximum speed : -- 85 km/h (52.8 mph) Accuracy : Guided Ammunition : 6x 227mm MFOM rocket or 1x ATACMS missile Chassis type : Wheeled chassis, 6x6 Engine : Caterpillar C7 6-cylinder water-cooled diesel Power output : 300 hp Transmission : Allison 3700 SP 7-speed automatic Fuel : 212 L Power to weight ratio : 18.5 hp/t Obstacle crossing : Wall : 0.6m : Trench : 1 m Gradient : 60 % Slope : 30 % Fording : 0.9 m Smoke system : No

US - MLRS Exercise Defender Europe 2021

Source: Military Footage Archive - MFA

M270 Rocket Launcher Live-fire | Exercise Defender Europe 2021

Soldiers from Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 77th Field Artillery Regiment, 41st Field Artillery Brigade, kick-off Fires Shock with a live-fire exercise with British Soldiers from 3rd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery who are supporting NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup-Estonia, here May 5, 2021. DEFENDER-Europe 21 is a large-scale U.S. Army-led exercise designed to build readiness and interoperability between U.S., NATO allies, and partner militaries.

US - Himars US Marines

 Source: Military Footage Archive - MFA

U.S. Marines with 3d Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3d Marine Division, and U.S. Airmen with 320th Special Tactics Squadron, conduct a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System air assault as a part of Castaway 21.1 at Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan, March 15, 2021. The exercise demonstrated the Marine Corps’ ability to integrate with the joint force to seize and defend key maritime terrain, provide low-signature sustainment, and execute long-range precision fires in support of naval operations from an expeditionary advanced base.

US - HIMARS M142

 Source: AMERICAN PATRIOT NEWS

U.S. Marine's Super Powerful M142 HIMARS Rockets In Action

HIMARS (high-mobility artillery rocket system) is the newest member of the multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS) family. HIMARS is a highly mobile artillery rocket system offering the firepower of MLRS on a wheeled chassis. It was developed in 1996 by Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control under an advanced concept technology demonstration (ACTD) programme. HIMARS is intended to engage and defeat artillery, air defence concentrations, trucks, and light armour and personnel carriers, as well as support troop and supply concentrations. The system launches its weapons and moves away from the area at high speed before enemy forces locate the launch site. Video by 94th Airlift Wing, Sgt. Matthew Callahan, Spc. Samuel Brooks, Lance Cpl. Cameron Fina, Cpl. Stephen Wright

Russia - Artillery Capabilities

 

Source: Smoke Hours

 Russian Artillery Capabilities

Turkey - Multi Launch Rocket Systems / Ballistic Missiles

 Source: Den ProHD

Turkey has more MLRS than the UK , France , Germany , Italy combined the UK , France , Germany , Italy uses American GMLRS with 39 km SCATMIN Rockets Turkey has own 40-120km guided MLRS

Multi Launch Rocket Systems

-- 40 km TRG-122 guided MLRS -- 120 km TRG-300 guided MLRS

Ballistic Missiles -- 150 km J600T Tactical Ballistic Missile -- 165 km ATACMS Tactical Ballistic Missile -- 280 km KHAN Tactical Ballistic Missile -- 1.000 km BORA Ballistic Missile

Bangladesh - Artillery Firepower 2021

 Source:  Everything Video

Bangladesh Army Artillery Power 2021

Self Propelled Artillery

NORA B52 155mm SP (origin Serbia)

Towed Artillery

Type 59 130mm (origin China)

L10A 105mm  (origin Italy)

AM-56 A1 105mm  (origin Serbia)

Type 96 122 mm  (origin China)

Type 83 122 mm  (origin China)

Type 54 122 mm  (origin China)

Rocket Artillery

T-300 Kaciga MLRS (origin Turrkey)

WS-22 A MLRS (origin China)

Mortars

Type 53 120mm mortar 

UMB-52 120mm mortar

Type 87 82mm mortar

Type 93 60mm mortar

Russia - TOS-1 Buratino MLRS

 Source: Military Update

The TOS-1 Buratino is a unique Russian self-propelled multiple rocket launcher system (MRLS) that has seen action in global hotspots like Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and Syria. Like the enormous 240-millimeter 2S4 self-propelled mortar, the TOS-1’s specialty is obliterating heavily fortified positions. Although some of these may be found in rural rebel strongholds and fortified caves, they have often been employed in heavily urbanized environments. It’s gained a uniquely nasty reputation because of the horrifying effects of its fuel-air explosive warheads. To put it concisely, these are amongst the most devastating explosive weapons short of tactical nuclear weapons.

TOS stands for “heavy flame thrower,” which is only accurate in a literal sense: instead of projecting a stream of jellied gasoline, the TOS-1 launches a rocket carrying a fuel-air explosive (FAE).These were first employed by the United States in the Vietnam War because napalm wasn’t destructive enough. Napalm munitions disperse a sticky, flaming liquid over a wide area. By contrast, a fuel-air explosive detonates the very air itself: a small explosive inside the FAE munition spreads a chemical cloud in the air through an aerosol effect. The gaseous cloud seeps effortlessly into buildings and caves, and down into slit trenches. A secondary explosive then ignites the cloud, causing a massive and long-lasting explosion. While the heat generated by FAEs causes lethal burns in a wide radius (roughly two hundred by three hundred meters) the overpressure created by the sudden combustion of the air is even deadlier. The fiery blasts create a partial oxygen vacuum that kills and maims in a variety of grotesque ways and cannot be mitigated with body armor or hard cover.

UK - GMLRS 101 Regiment Royal Artillery

 Source: HBB Defense Military

For the first time in 15 years Reservists from the 101st Northumbrian Regiment Royal Artillery, have fired the Multiple Launch Rocket System at Kirkcudbright Ranges in Dumfries and Galloway.  

The MLRS is the British Army’s main ‘precision fire’ weapon system, able to engage targets at long ranges with extreme accuracy. Each battery has its own reconnaissance and command sections which control the MLRS movement and firing, as well as the delivery of ammunition. The 3 man MLRS detachment will often operate and move independently, as will the other elements of the of the battery, such as the 2 man ammunition crew.

Russia - Multi Launch Rockets

Massive Fire On target!                                                                                           TOS1-A, BM-30 Smerch 9K58, Tornado-G, BM-27 Uragan in Action 

 

Source: Military Update

BM30 - Smerch 

The BM-30 Smerch (Russian: Смерч, "tornado", "whirlwind"), 9K58 Smerch or 9A52-2 Smerch-M is a Soviet heavy multiple rocket launcher. The system is intended to defeat personnel, armored, and soft targets in concentration areas, artillery batteries, command posts and ammunition depots. It was designed in the early 1980s and entered service in the Soviet Army in 1989. When first observed by the West in 1983, it received the code MRL 280mm M1983. It continued in use by Russia; a program to replace it by the 9A52-4 Tornado was launched in 2018

BM21 - Grad The BM-21 "Grad" (Russian: БМ-21 "Град", lit. 'hail') is a Soviet truck-mounted 122 mm multiple rocket launcher. The weapons system and the M-21OF rocket[11] were first developed in the early 1960s, and saw their first combat use in March 1969 during the Sino-Soviet border conflict. BM stands for boyevaya mashina (Russian: боевая машина – combat vehicle), and the nickname grad means "hail". The complete system with the BM-21 launch vehicle and the M-21OF rocket is designated[by whom?] as the M-21 field-rocket system. The complete system is more commonly known as a Grad multiple rocket launcher system. In NATO countries the system (either the complete system or the launch vehicle only) was initially known as M1964. Several other countries have copied the Grad or have developed similar systems.

9A52-4 Tornado The 9A52-4 Tornado is Russia's newest universal multiple rocket launcher. It was designed as a lightweight and universal version of the BM-30 Smerch, dubbed 9A52-2. It was first unveiled in 2007 as a more strategically and tactically mobile launcher, albeit at the expense of a slight reduction in firepower. This model is aimed at replacing the previous generation of Russian multiple rocket launchers, including BM-21 Grad, BM-27 Uragan and BM-30 Smerch. Currently the sole operator is Russian Ground Forces. A version will be approved for export.

TOS-1 TOS-1 (Rusia: ТОС-1 - тяжёлая огнемётная система, Inggris: Heavy Flamethrower System) adalah roket peluncur Soviet 220mm 30-barrel (sistem yang asli, Ob.634 atau TOS-1M) atau 24-barrel (Ob.634B atau KL-1A) dan beberapa senjata thermobaric dipasang di tangki chassis T-72. TOS-1 dirancang untuk mengalahkan personil musuh dalam benteng, di daerah yang terbuka, dan kendaraan lapis baja ringan dan transportasi. Tes tempur pertama terjadi pada tahun 1988-1989 di Lembah Panjshir selama perang Soviet di Afghanistan. TOS-1 ditunjukkan untuk pertama kalinya di depan umum pada tahun 1999 di Omsk. TOS-1 tidak digunakan oleh unit artileri Angkatan Bersenjata Rusia, tetapi ditemukan dalam unit NBC pertahanan. (Rusia: войскa радиационной, химической и биологической защиты (РХБЗ))

Russia - Live Fire Artillery Firepower

 Source: WarLeaks - Military Blog

BM-21 Multi Launch Rocket System

2s35 Koalitsiya-SV 52 mm Self Propelled Gun

2A65 Msta-B 152 mm towed howitzer 

D-20 152 mm towed gun-howitzer

Russia - Russian Artillery & Infantry Winter Live Fire

 Source: WarLeaks - Military Blog

Russian artillery systems and mechanized infantry conducting winter live fire exercises.

India - BM21

 Source: Economic Times

 A battery firing from the Indian Army's BM 21 Grad undertaken at the Deolali firing ranges June 2019

UK - MLRS 101 Regiment RA

 

101 Regiment is the only reservist unit that operates the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) - the British Army’s main precision fire weapons system.

MLRS is equipped with up to 12 high-explosive warheads and a GPS guidance system able to fire accurately at a range of up to 70 kilometres.

UK - Royal School of Artillery

UNITED KINGDOM 

ROYAL SCHOOL OF ARTILLERY

US - MLRS Firepower

 America's Artillery Capabilities: On target! MLRS 270 & MGM-140: 227mm M26, M30/M31 missile

Source: Military Update

South Korea - K136 Kooryong

 Source: WarLeaks - Military Blog

The K136 Kooryong is a South Korean rocket artillery system that was deployed in 1986. The multiple rocket launcher has 36 tubes and fires 130mm (K30, 131mm (K33) rockets. Payload is conventional High explosive and pre-fragmented HE, containing 16 000 steel balls at a range of 22 or 30 km. Launcher is carried on a KM809A1 6x6 truck. About 150 units were built.

Russia - TOS-2 Tosochka

Source: Military Update

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Source: Russian News Agency

The TOS-2 Tosochka is a successor to the TOS-1A Solntsepyok system with increased capabilities. Its firing range has been increased. Targeting, shooting and fire control are fully automated. The launcher is equipped with its own crane and requires no loading vehicle. Besides, the TOS-2 is equipped with radio electronic defences against precision weapons.

It can fire unguided ordnance with thermobaric and smoke-incendiary warheads.