| New in Military Production |
| 05/09/2006 MBCB News |
| 24/11/2003 IMDEX/UDT ASIA 2003 exhibition, Singapore |
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Purpose |
| SMERCH MULTIPLE ROCKET LAUNCHER SYSTEM (MRLS) (9K58)
is designed to ensure battlefield mass destruction weapon delivery
means and storage facilities, lightly armoured and armoured materiel,
rocket launchers, artillery and mortar batteries in firing positions,
air/missile defence units in deployment areas, aircraft in airfields,
helicopters in parking pads and landing zones, command and communication
posts of troops control, engineer support facilities and fortifications,
various components of military infrastructure. |
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| Technical specifications
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| Calibre |
300 mm |
| Weight of RP |
800..815 kg |
| Range of fire: |
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90 km |
| - min |
20 km |
| Number of launching tubes |
12 |
| Salvo time |
38 sec |
| LV loading time |
20 min |
| Time to prepare for action, not more than |
3 min |
| Time for urgent leaving of the firing position after
launch |
1 min |
| LV crew |
3 men |
| TL crew |
2 men |
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| Ambient Operating Conditions |
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| Ground temperature range for the RP |
-50..+50 °C |
| Ground temperature range for the LV |
-40..+50 °C |
| RPs short-term stay (up to 6hr) temperature range |
-60..+60 °C |
| Ground wind |
up to 20 m/s |
| Air relative humidity at +35°C |
up to 98 % |
| Rainfall (max) |
2.7 mm/min |
| Dust content in the ground air |
up to 2 g/m3 |
| Atmospheric reduced pressure above sea level | up to 3000 m |
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The distinguishing feature of the SMERCH
MRLS is the system of the
flight trajectory autonomous correction. |
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| "SMERCH" System |
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Rocket Projectiles |
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9M55K |
with fragmentation
submunitions warhead |
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9M55K1 |
with sensor-fuzed
submunitions warhead |
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9M55K4 |
with anti-tank mine
scattering warhead |
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9M55K5 |
with shaped-charge fragmentation
submunitions warhead |
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9M55F |
with separable
HE-fragmentation warhead |
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9M55C |
| with fuel-air explosive warhead |
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9M528 |
| with HE-fragmentation warhead |
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Launch vehicles |
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Transporter-Loaders |
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Set of 9F819 Arsenal Equipment and Tools |
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9F827 Training Aids |
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9F840 Training Set |
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"Slepok-1" complex of facilities for automated fire control 9C729M1 Automated Fire Control System |
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1T12-2M Topographical Survey Vehicle |
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1B 44 Radio Direction-Finding Weather system |
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