BM-30

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The BM-30 Smerch (Tornado) or 9K58 is a Russian multiple rocket launcher. The system is designed to defeat manpower, armored and soft-skinned materiel in concentration areas, artillery batteries, command posts and ammunition depots. It was created in 1986 and entered service in the Soviet Army in 1989.^[1]

Components:

• rockets (in containers);
• 9A52-2 modernized launch vehicle;
• transloader;
• automated fire control equipment;
• set of arsenal equipment;
• training facilities.

The 300mm rockets with a firing range of 70 and 90 km and various warheads have been developed for the Smerch MLRS.

The 9A52-2 vehicle with the automated system ensures:

• delivery of fire from an unsurveyed fire position;
• laying of the launch tube cluster with the crew staying in the cabin and without using aiming points;
• autonomous determination of an azimuth of the launch tube cluster’s longitudinal axis;
• visual representation of graphical information for the launch tube cluster laying, the route of vehicle movement and location as well as a point of destination and direction of movement on the video terminal;
• increase in MLRS survivability owing to reduced time of staying at a fire position;
• increased comfort for the laying operator, especially in adverse weather conditions and at night;
• increased independent operation owing to the navigation and survey equipment, which allows the vehicle to rapidly change fire positions and move autonomously;
• reduction of the combat crew.

Contents 1 General characteristics 1.1 Rocket Projectiles 2 Operators 2.1 Former operators 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] General characteristics

• Chassis: MAZ-543M
• Combat Weight: 43.7 t
• Length: 12 m
• Height: 3.05 m
• Width: 3.05 m
• Crew: 3 men
• Emplacement Time: 3 min
• Displacement Time: 2 min
• Launcher: 9A52-2, 300-mm, 12 tubes
• Launch Rate

Salvo Time: 12 rounds in 38 seconds

• Reload Time: 20 min

[edit] Rocket Projectiles

Variant		Rocket		Warhead		Self-destruct time	Range
Name	Type	Weight	Length	Weight	Submunition		Min.	Max.
9M55K	Cluster munition, anti-personnel	800 kg	7.6 m	243 kg	72 × 1.75 kg, each with 96 fragments (4.5 g each)	110 sec	20 km	70 km
9M55K1	Cluster munition, self guided anti-tank			243 kg	5 × 15 kg
9M55K4	Cluster munition, AT minelets.			243 kg	25 × 5 kg mines	24 hour
9M55K5	HEAT/HE-Fragmentation.			243 kg	646 × 0.25 kg (120 mm RHA armor piercing)	260 sec
9M55F	separable HE-Fragmentation			258 kg
9M55S	Thermobaric			243 kg
9M528	HE-Fragmentation	815 kg		243 kg	7.6 m		25 km	90 km

[edit] Operators

•  Algeria: 18 systems in 1999.
•  India: 38 systems to be delivered by 2008 and additional 24 systems by 2010.Total cost $750 million.
•  Kuwait: 27 systems in 1996.
•  Russia: 300 in 2001(100 in 1995) ^[2]
•  Belarus: 48 system in 1990 ^[3]
•  Ukraine: unknown number ^[4]

[edit] Former operators

•  Soviet Union: Passed on to successor states.

[edit] References

• Russia's Arms Catalog 2004

[edit] See also

• Katyusha, BM-13, BM-8, and BM-31 multiple rocket launchers of World War II
• BM-14 140mm multiple rocket launcher
• BM-21 Grad 122mm multiple rocket launcher
• BM-27 Uragan 220mm multiple rocket launcher
• M270, U.S. multiple rocket launcher
• Pinaka Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher,214mm Indian multiple rocket launcher
• TOS-1 Buratino Heavy Flame Thrower System, (actually thermobaric)

[edit] External links

• Smerch - 9A52 - 300mm multi-barreled rocket launcher – Walk around photos
• Splav State Research and Production Enterprise

Soviet and post-Soviet armoured fighting vehicles after World War II
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