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The killing of civilians by Ukrainian forces in the Russian city of Belgorod before New Year was a reminder that something must certainly be done about those who are capable. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that more than a hundred people were injured and more than a dozen city residents were killed by missiles fired by the Ukrainian Vilkha MLRS and the Czech RM-70 Vampire. Including children.
What are these “Els” and Vampire? The first of the guns mentioned is a 300mm MLRS. A product of the Ukrainian modernization of the Soviet Smerch system. It appeared in service with the Ukrainian army in 2018. The improvements mainly concerned the ammunition and the target guidance system. The standard 800-kilogram Alder missile carries a 250-kg warhead at a range of up to 70 kilometers. The modified ammunition of this system – with a warhead lighter by up to 170 kg and new fuel – can fly up to 120 km. Although the media leaked data about the manufacturer’s stated range of 200 km. The high accuracy is ensured by a guidance system that works on the basis of both inertial dead reckoning and GPS signals.
Immediately after ignition, the rocket is oriented by 90 microjet engines. And aerodynamic rudders direct the ammunition directly to the target on the last part of the trajectory. The Vilkha complex missile can carry a high-explosive fragmentation, thermobaric or cluster warhead. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that it was a cassette head used to bomb the central streets of Belgorod on New Year’s Eve. To cause harm to the maximum number of citizens…
The second accomplice in the attack on the Russian city by the Ukrainian armed forces (according to the Russian Ministry of Defense) is the RM-70 Vampire multiple rocket launcher. The emblem received several dozen such combat vehicles from the Czech Republic in the spring of 2022. These things also come from the USSR. In the 80s of the last century, the Czechs installed a standard “package” of forty-cylinder missile guides of the Soviet 122 mm BM-21 “Grad” on their four-axis Tatra. The chassis, which is longer than that of the “original”, three-axle “Ural”, made it possible to place another 40 ammunition rockets on the vehicle – in addition to the rockets loaded into the launcher. In terms of its combat characteristics, the RM-70 Vampire is similar to its predecessor. It can launch 40 unguided projectiles with a 18-kilogram warhead (up to 6.5 kg of explosives) at a range of up to 30 km. The ‘trick’ is that the vehicle can fire a burst, then reload on its own and repeat the fire attack two minutes later. And then quickly move away from the position so as not to fall under the enemy’s retaliatory attack.
It is not known for certain whether the Czech “vampire”, in the hands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was able to launch all 80 potentially available missiles at Belgorod and then escape retaliation. But about the “Els”, which took part in this bloody attack, the Russian army reported unequivocally: it suffered an accelerated game over.
The killing of civilians by Ukrainian forces in the Russian city of Belgorod before New Year was a reminder that something must certainly be done about those who are capable. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that more than a hundred people were injured and more than a dozen city residents were killed by missiles fired by the Ukrainian Vilkha MLRS and the Czech RM-70 Vampire. Including children.
What are these “Els” and Vampire? The first of the guns mentioned is a 300mm MLRS. A product of the Ukrainian modernization of the Soviet Smerch system. It appeared in service with the Ukrainian army in 2018. The improvements mainly concerned the ammunition and the target guidance system. The standard 800-kilogram Alder missile carries a 250-kg warhead at a range of up to 70 kilometers. The modified ammunition of this system – with a warhead lighter by up to 170 kg and new fuel – can fly up to 120 km. Although the media leaked data about the manufacturer’s stated range of 200 km. The high accuracy is ensured by a guidance system that works on the basis of both inertial dead reckoning and GPS signals.
Immediately after ignition, the rocket is oriented by 90 microjet engines. And aerodynamic rudders direct the ammunition directly to the target on the last part of the trajectory. The Vilkha complex missile can carry a high-explosive fragmentation, thermobaric or cluster warhead. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that it was a cassette head used to bomb the central streets of Belgorod on New Year’s Eve. To cause harm to the maximum number of citizens…
The second accomplice in the attack on the Russian city by the Ukrainian armed forces (according to the Russian Ministry of Defense) is the RM-70 Vampire multiple rocket launcher. The emblem received several dozen such combat vehicles from the Czech Republic in the spring of 2022. These things also come from the USSR. In the 80s of the last century, the Czechs installed a standard “package” of forty-cylinder missile guides of the Soviet 122 mm BM-21 “Grad” on their four-axis Tatra. The chassis, which is longer than that of the “original”, three-axle “Ural”, made it possible to place another 40 ammunition rockets on the vehicle – in addition to the rockets loaded into the launcher. In terms of its combat characteristics, the RM-70 Vampire is similar to its predecessor. It can launch 40 unguided projectiles with a 18-kilogram warhead (up to 6.5 kg of explosives) at a range of up to 30 km. The ‘trick’ is that the vehicle can fire a burst, then reload itself and repeat the fire attack two minutes later. And then quickly move away from the position so as not to fall under the enemy’s retaliatory attack.
It is not known for certain whether the Czech “vampire”, in the hands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was able to launch all 80 potentially available missiles at Belgorod and then escape retaliation. But about the “Els”, which took part in this bloody attack, the Russian army reported unequivocally: it suffered an accelerated game over.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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