Summary
Ground Warfare
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Steel rain.
Conventional artillery is heavy but has the attraction of delivering an effective warhead against a point target with reasonable accuracy and consistency, allowing fire to be adjusted to correct errors in the fall of shot. However, in many cases ground targets are distributed over a large area. Multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) are a relatively light, mobile and economical means to saturate an area target.
The multiple-launch rocket system concept is widely considered to have been pioneered by the Soviet Union, and the patent granted in 1938 to the Russian engineers Gway, Kostikov and Kleimenov certainly supports this ide...See the full content of this document
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