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Rocket artillery is artillery equipped with rocket launchers instead of conventional guns or mortars. Download high resolution version (576x720, 29 KB) [1] File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Historically, artillery (from French artillerie) refers to any engine used for the discharge of projectiles during war. ...
US soldier loading a M224 60-mm mortar. ...
Types of rocket artillery pieces include multiple rocket launchers and ballistic missiles. BM-13 Katyusha RM-70 of the Polish Army A multiple rocket launcher is a type of unguided rocket artillery system, in use since the Second World War. ...
A tactical ballistic missile is a ballistic missile designed for short-range battlefield use. ...
Rocket artillery vs conventional artillery
Rockets produce no recoil, while conventional artillery cannons produce significant recoil. Because of this, artillery cannons usually must be braced against recoil, requiring load out time. In this state, it is immobile, and can not change position easily. Rocket artillery is much more mobile and can change position easily. This "shoot-and-scoot" ability makes the platform difficult to target.
Rocket artillery cannot usually match the accuracy and sustained rate of fire of conventional artillery, but may be capable of very destructive strikes by delivering a large mass of explosives simultaneously, thus increasing the shock effect and giving the target less time to take cover.
Rocket artillery typically has a very large fire signature, leaving a clear smoke-trail showing exactly where the barrage came from. However, since the barrage does not take much time, the rocket artillery can move away quickly.
Cannon artillery can use a forward observer to correct fire, thus achieving further accuracy. This is usually not practical with rocket artillery.
Cannon artillery shells are typically cheaper and less bulky than rockets, so it can deliver a larger amount of explosive at the enemy per weight of ammunition or per money spent.
While cannon artillery shells are smaller than rockets, the cannon itself must be very large to match the range of rockets. Therefore rockets typically have longer range while the rocket launchers remain small enough to mount on mobile vehicles. Super huge cannons like the Paris Gun have been rendered obsolete by long range missiles. The German Paris Gun, also known as the William’s Gun, was the largest rail artillery gun of the Great War. ...
If the artillery barrage was intended as a preparation for an attack, and it usually is, a short but intense barrage will give the enemy less time to prepare by, for instance, sending in reinforcements.
History The use of rockets as some form of artillery dates back to medieval China where devices such as fire arrows were used (However, this was mostly a psychological weapon). The basic idea of fire arrows were expanded in such inventions as the Korean Shin Ki Chon. The use of medieval rocket artillery was picked up by the invading Mongols and spread to the Ottoman Turks who in turn used them on the European battlefield. Although the technique was therefore known to Europeans from the 17th century their use fell out of favor until the late 18th century when the British invented the Congreve rocket after Indians used rocket artillery against British forces in battle. A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program The traditional definition of a rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving fluid from within a rocket engine. ...
Fire Arrows may refer to: A weapon used in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time weapons and items The Chinese Fire Arrow ...
Shin Ki Chon is a Korean artillery weapon, first built in the year of 1448 A.D. and used during the Choson Dynasty. ...
Honorary guard of Mongolia. ...
The Ottoman Turks were the ethnic subdivision of the Turkish people who dominated the ruling class of the Ottoman Empire. ...
Congreve rocket from Congreves original work The Congreve Rocket was a British weapon designed by William Congreve in 1804. ...
Modern rocket artillery was first employed during the Second World War, in the form of the German Nebelwerfer and Soviet BM-13 Katyusha. Modern examples are high mobile and are used as other self-propelled artillery. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom France Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian...
The Nebelwerfer (or smoke shell mortar) was a German towed artillery piece, developed during the 1930s for World War II. It had six 150mm barrels, from which it fired rockets over a period of ten seconds. ...
Katyusha multiple rocket launchers are a type of rocket artillery built and fielded by the Soviet Union beginning in the Second World War. ...
A U.S. M109A6 Paladin self-propelled howitzer Self-propelled artillery (also called mobile artillery or locomotive artillery) vehicles are a way of giving mobility to artillery. ...
Rockets have equipped ships and aircraft as well as the ground carriages covered here.
Rocket tanks
M4 Sherman
 A T-34 "Calliope" rocket launcher mounted on a Sherman tank of the 14th Armored Division in Alsace, NE France. The M4 in US service was fitted with rockets on top the existing gun turret. The 752nd Tank Battalion in Italy in WW2 used M4 Sherman tanks with both the short-range T40 Whizbang and the long-range T34 Calliope, including extensive Calliope firing during the static period before the final Po Valley breakthrough. US units in the European Theater of Operations also used Calliope. Image File history File links T-34-rocket-launcher-France. ...
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Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1021x834, 199 KB) Summary Description: Israeli MAR-240 240 mm ground-to-ground missile launcher on M4 Sherman tank chassis in Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Israel. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1021x834, 199 KB) Summary Description: Israeli MAR-240 240 mm ground-to-ground missile launcher on M4 Sherman tank chassis in Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Israel. ...
see M4 Sherman tank main article for background to 1945 Postwar Sherman tanks saw extensive use around the world after WWII. This article catalogues foreign postwar use and conversions of Sherman tanks and variants based on the Sherman chassis. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1153x947, 283 KB) Summary Description: Israeli MAR-290 290 mm ground-to-ground missile launcher on M4 Sherman chassis in Beyt ha-Totchan, Zichron Yaakov, Israel. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1153x947, 283 KB) Summary Description: Israeli MAR-290 290 mm ground-to-ground missile launcher on M4 Sherman chassis in Beyt ha-Totchan, Zichron Yaakov, Israel. ...
see M4 Sherman tank main article for background to 1945 Postwar Sherman tanks saw extensive use around the world after WWII. This article catalogues foreign postwar use and conversions of Sherman tanks and variants based on the Sherman chassis. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1269x871, 310 KB) Summary Description: Kachlilit AGM-45 Shrike anti-radiation missile launcher at Muzeyon Heyl ha-Avir, Hatzerim, Israel. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1269x871, 310 KB) Summary Description: Kachlilit AGM-45 Shrike anti-radiation missile launcher at Muzeyon Heyl ha-Avir, Hatzerim, Israel. ...
see M4 Sherman tank main article for background to 1945 Postwar Sherman tanks saw extensive use around the world after WWII. This article catalogues foreign postwar use and conversions of Sherman tanks and variants based on the Sherman chassis. ...
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- Rocket Launcher T34 Calliope - armed with 60 4.5 inch rocket tubes mounted above the turret. Saw limited combat in 1944-1945. (picture)
- Rocket Launcher T34E1 - T34 with 14 tubes in the 2 bottom units.
- Rocket Launcher T34E2 - T34 modified to accept 7.2" rockets.
- Rocket Launcher T39 - Enclosed box mount with doors, with 20 7.2" rockets.
- Rocket Launcher T40/M17 WhizBang - armed with 20 7.2" rockets. Saw limited combat in 1944-45. A short variant of the T40 was also developed, but saw little usage.
Unused variants - Rocket Launcher T72 - T34 short tube variant. Never used.
- Rocket Launcher T73 - Similar to the T40, but with only 10 tubes. Never used.
- Rocket Launcher T76 - M4A1 w/ 7.2" rocket launcher in place of main gun. Never used.
- Rocket Launcher T105 - M4A1 w/ rocket case instead of main gun. Never used.
- Multiple Rocket Launcher T99 - 2 box mounts with 22 4.5" rockets, mounted on the turret. Never used.
In 1945 British service, some Shermans were fitted out with two 60 lb RP3 rockets, the same as used on ground attack aircraft, these were called Tulip The RP-3 (for Rocket Projectile 3), was a British air to ground rocket used in the Second World War. ...
Israeli Rocket Shermans:
- MAR-240 Multiple Rocket Launcher - In place of the turret, a launcher for 36 240 mm rockets was fitted. These were Israeli made versions of the Soviet BM-24 Katyusha rocket. Photos: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MAR-240
- MAR-290 Armored 290mm Rocket Launcher - As with the MAR-240 rocket launcher, except mounting four 290 mm ground-to-ground rockets with a 22 km range. Was used in the 1982 Lebanon War. Photos: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MAR-290
- Kilshon (Trident) or Kachlilit - The Kilshon was developed to reduce the losses suffered by SAM suppression aircraft by launching anti-radiation missiles from the ground. The Kilshon was based on turretless hull of the M51 Isherman on which a AGM-45 Shrike anti-radiation missile launcher was mounted. To deliver the desired range, a specially modified AGM-45 with booster was used. Later a prototype was developed for use with the AGM-78 Standard anti-radiation missile, but with the retirement of Shermans from IDF service the Keres (Hook) system was placed onto a heavy truck chassis for the finalized design instead. Photos: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/AGM-45_Shrike
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HARM on a US Navy F-18C Three ALARMs on an RAF Tornado GR4 An anti-radiation missile is a missile which is designed to detect and home in on the emissions of an enemy radar installation. ...
AGM-45 Shrike is an anti-radiation missile designed to home in on hostile antiaircraft radars. ...
The AGM-78 Standard ARM was a missile developed by the United States of America. ...
Sturmtiger The German WWII Sturmtiger was a vehicle based on the Tiger I heavy tank chassis, armed with a 380 mm rocket mortar. The Tiger-Mörser, 38 cm RW61 auf Sturm(panzer)mörser Tiger, or Sturmmörser Tiger, more commonly known as the Sturmtiger or Sturmpanzer VI, was a World War II German assault gun built on the Panzer VI Tiger I chassis armed with a large naval mortar, the 38cm...
The Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. ...
Other self-propelled rocket artillery - Soviet BM-8 was a WWII era 24, 36 or 48 x 82 mm multiple rocket launcher produced in different variants on either truck or T-40/T-60 light tank chassis.
- Soviet BM-13, widely known as Katyusha, was a WWII-era 16 x 132 mm multiple rocket launcher based truck chassis.
- Soviet BM-14 was a post-war 16 x 140 mm multiple rocket launcher on truck chassis.
- Soviet BM-21 Grad is a 40 x 122 mm multiple rocket launcher produced in a number of versions, mostly on truck chassis.
- Soviet BM-27 Uragan is a 16 x 220mm multiple rocket launcher.
- Soviet BM-30 Smerch is a 12 x 300mm multiple rocket launcher.
- M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System
- The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System is a 12 x 227 mm multiple rocket launcher of United States origin.
Katyusha multiple rocket launchers are a type of rocket artillery built and fielded by the Soviet Union beginning in the Second World War. ...
The T-40 was a light tank used by the Soviet Union during World War II. Because it was not the best tank available to the Soviets (that crown belonged to the T-34), very little in the way of T-40s were seen on the battlefields. ...
The T-60 was a light tank produced by the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1942. ...
BM-13 Katyusha RS-132 rockets mounted underneath the wing of LaGG-3 fighter Damage caused to a German tank Pz Kpfw 38(t) by direct hit of RS-132 The 82mm BM-8 and 132mm BM-13 Katyusha rocket launchers were built and fielded by the Soviet Union in...
BM-14 battery. ...
BM-21 battery. ...
The 9P140 Uragan (hurricane), known as the BM-27 began its service with the Soviet army in the late 1970s as its first modern spin and fin stabilized heavy multiple rocket launcher. ...
The BM-30 Smerch (Tornado) or 9K58 is a Soviet/Russian MRLS. The system is designed to defeat manpower, armored and soft-skinned materiel in concentration areas, artillery batteries, command posts and ammunition depots. ...
M270 MLRS The M270 MLRS conducts a rocket launch. ...
Panzerwerfer Panzerwerfer is the name for two different types of half-tracked multiple rocket launchers employed by Germany during the Second World War. Panzerwerfer alias Maultier Panzerwerfer is the name for two different types of half-tracked multiple rocket launchers employed by Germany during the Second World War. ...
Wurfrahmen 40 Wurfrahmen 40 was the German WWII half-track SdKfz 251 converted to fire rockets. The Wurfrahmen 40 was a German World War II artillery unit. ...
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Towed rocket artillery
Nebelwerfer Nebelwerfer was a German WWII era 6 x 150 mm rocket launcher. The Nebelwerfer (or smoke shell mortar) was a German towed artillery piece, developed during the 1930s for World War II. It had six 150mm barrels, from which it fired rockets over a period of ten seconds. ...
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