The BM-30 Smerch heavy multiple rocket launcher during the 2009 Moscow Victory Day Parade in Moscow, Russia

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The BM-30 Smerch ("whirlwind") or 9A52-2 Smerch-M is a Soviet heavy multiple rocket launcher. The system is designed to defeat personnel, armored, and soft-skinned targets in concentration areas, artillery batteries, command posts and ammunition depots. It was created in the early 1980s and entered service in the Soviet Army in 1989. When first observed by the West in 1983, it received the code MRL 280mm M1983. It is expected to be superseded by the 9A52-4 Tornado.

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Size: 4368px × 2912px
Location: Kremlin, Kremlevskaya Embankment, Moscow, Russia, Eastern Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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