RSO M270 MLRS. The American answer is “degree” and “hurricane”. Shcherbakov V.

For several decades after the Second World War, the American army in the issue of art support on the battlefield was primarily relied on guns and mortars. However, the increased power of the Soviet Army and the emergence of new generation reactive systems on its weapons, the famous Grad and Hurricans, demanded to sharply increase the firing power of field artillery from the Ground Forces. As a result, in the early 1980s, self-propelled M270 MLRS NPSOs was adopted into service of the Americans and a number of their allies. Its name itself - “Multiple Launch Rocket System”, which translates as a “rocket system of salvo fire” - has become a common house: today it is customary to denote all weapons of this class abroad.

, first of all, M270 MLRS, which has high potential to defeat a wide range of targets, was intended for the war in Europe, during which it was supposed to strengthen the fire power of NATO non -nuclear artillery and crush the Soviet tank armada ("Soldier system" - This is the often named this MLRS by its creators).

The book of a well -known specialist in military equipment for the first time in Russian literature in all details tells about the history of creation, design, tests, adoption of the installation of M270 MLRS, which has already become legendary MLRS Himars.

Edition illustrated by many photographs.