Multi-launchers US missile system

Launchers loaded ammunition used varied tactical missiles Army Missile System-ATACMS and manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin, was the first model of delivery

He units of the US Army in 1983,

To enter after arming the armies of most NATO countries, have also been synthesized in

Widely by European countries, and has made the US Army about 1,300 units of this system with 700,000 missiles and has been very widely used throughout

The second Gulf War in 1991 and during the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, which showed

Missile system high efficiency heavy artillery.

And the production of this system has stopped year

2003, after the last delivery of the delivery of the Egyptian army.

General characteristics:

This system can launch missiles

Directed and not directed at a distance of 32 km,

And the advantage of this system is being mobile unit artillery and rocket propelled suitable for implementing the tactics of fire and move quickly dumping Scene

Operations to avoid fighting the bombing of enemy artillery batteries Counter-battery fire.

And it has been developed in close collaboration between

United States, Britain, France and Germany, according to

Oldest American-style launcher is the general

Rocket Support System (RSG).

And to be equipped with missiles placed in Hadhantin PODS and each with six pitchers

One -Caliber and missiles using a special crane feeding, and the system can

The launch twelve rockets in less than a minute and you can all artillery unit on dumping square kilometers and cluster munitions

That's why the calls MLRS units in the army

American "Removal Service Grid Square" because

Cadastral maps of the US military are often divided into indoor networks

Each kilometer square one.

And the system has recently been developed by rockets

Directed uniform head was terminated practical experiences of these missiles in March

2003 haste and for publication in the theater of operations in the Gulf before the start of the invasion

Iraq.

Date of Service:

When MLRS system is published

Inside the US Army for the first time been integrated into the joint artillery battalions of artillery

Howitzers and mobile rocket launchers before the formation of entire units

Artillery rocket in 1985, and these units entered the first combat test

The operations of the second Gulf War in 1991, have also been deployed units support system

The British military operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan in March 2007.

The military effectiveness:

This system is characterized by its ability to work

In all weather conditions and is used mainly to meet the enemy artillery batteries and muted when the mutual and fire suppression bombing

As to hit tanks and armored concentrations in all its forms and fields Infantry

Depending on cluster munitions also offers the possibility to clean the theater of operations

All forms of support to the forces of enemy fire and so does the tasks of artillery

It complements traditional.

To increase efficiency, the army

USA. Several improvements to the system, including increased range missile

From 32 km to 50 km and then change the type of ammunition to the router with improved

Automated feed-missile system in incubators to accelerate performance.

And the guidance system including monitoring capabilities

Climate missile guidance system based on GPS

(Global Positioning System), while

The whole system mounted on an armored vehicle inspired by the car

Crawler Bradley Fighting Vehicle Bradley Fighting with rates of 64 kilometers per hour, with a range of practical reach 480 km and can override

Terrain inclination angle 60 degrees and can be fed MLRS, and treatment and launch 12 rockets into two system

Record does not exceed 5 minutes, and the system can be transferred and published by jets of air Bastdam

C-5 and C-17.

System and crew consists of 3 members, the driver and the gunner and commander of the driver, gunner and Section

Chief in charge of the computer and can change direction correction function

Data entered by artillery, even during commissioning, and perhaps the most characteristic

Tactically MLRS system is the firepower of dumping

The target area because each missile can carry 644

Cluster bomb or 28 antitank mines

It provides enormous destructive capabilities against armor and can each cluster bomb full of holes penetrate 100 mm of armor

200 equivalent heterogeneous fragments Qatar

Exploding while the US military is currently working on the development of pumps

The definitive guide can distinguish between trucks and

Armor.

And you can imagine the enormous capabilities of destruction

It consists of a battalion of 9 rocket can within a minute and launch unless consisting of

108 missiles, including nearly 69,000 cluster bombs can cover about 700 acres

At the scene of the fight and everything accurately guide and a great time few, and estimated

The capacity of the destructive impact of these circumstances nuke bombing tactics, military experts.

General specifications of the MLRS system:

Manufacturer: Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin.

Entry into service: 1983.

The first combat use: 1991, during the Gulf War

II.

Caliber: 227 mm.

Full rocket weight: 24.756 kg.

Practice Range: 480 miles.

Maximum speed: 64 km.

Rocket length 3.94 meters.

To re-supply: 4 to 5 minutes.

The shell weight: 308 kg.

Unit Price: US $ 2.3 million.

States use:

USA.,

Bahrain, France, Germany, Finland, Israel, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands,

Turkey, South Korea, Japan, Norway.