Rocket Launchers ("Katyushas")

Updated January 18, 2006
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BM-13 based on ZIS-6 chassis [4] BM-13 based on ZIS-6 chassis [4]
BM-8-36 82mm rocket launcher [4] BM-8-36 82mm rocket launcher [4]
BM-8-36 BM-8-36 82mm rocket launcher [3]
BM-8-48 rocket launcher on Studebacker chassis [4] BM-8-48 rocket launcher on Studebacker chassis [4]
BM-8-48 rocket launcher based on Ford-Marmon chassis [4]BM-8-48 rocket launcher based on Ford-Marmon chassis [4] BM-8-48 rocket launcher based on Ford-Marmon chassis [4]
BM-13 Guards Rocket launcher BM-13-16 Guards multiple rocket launcher. The system is mounted on a US-made two-axial Chevrolet truck. The North-Caucasian Front, Feb. 1943 [1]
BM-13-16 based on GMC CCKW252 chassis [4] BM-13-16 based on GMC CCKW252 chassis [4]
BM-31-12 BM-31-12 300mm rocket launcher [3]
BM-31 based on ZIS-6 truck BM-31 based on ZIS-6 truck [5]
BM-13 based on STZ-5 NATI prime-mover chassis [4] BM-13 based on STZ-5 NATI prime-mover chassis [4]
STZ-5 BM-13 based on STZ-5 NATI prime-mover chassis assigned to the 5th Gds. Mortar Regiment/6th Army. South-Western Front, May 1942 [7]
STZ-5 BM-13 based on STZ-5 NATI prime-mover chassis assigned to the 5th Gds. Mortar Regiment/6th Army. South-Western Front, May 1942 [7]
Captured by Germans BM-8-24 multiple rocket launcher based on T-60 hull. Guards Mortar Battalions of Tank Corps were equipped with such vehicles Captured by Germans BM-8-24 multiple rocket launcher based on T-60 hull. Guards Mortar Battalions of Tank Corps were equipped with such vehicles [2]
BM-8-24 based on T-40 (T-60) hull [4] BM-8-24 based on T-40 (T-60) hull [4]
BM-8-24 BM-8-24 rocket launcher. Interesting to observe how short track is employed. Russian resourcefulness in action[?]
Armored powerboat equipped with 24-M-8 rocket launcher.[4]Armored powerboat equipped with 24-M-8 rocket launcher.[4] Armored powerboat equipped with 24-M-8 rocket launcher.[4]
BM-8-40 Unique image. BM-8-40 mounted on GAZ-MM mod. 1942 chassis [6]

See also: Rocket launchers of RKKA
Literature
  1. "Na Flangakh Stalingrada. Operatsii na Severnom Kavkaze 1 Yanvaria - 4 Fevralya 1943". Voyennaya Letopis. #3, 2002
  2. "Boi v izluchine Dona. 28 Iyunia - 23 Iyulia 1942". Frontovaya Illyustratsia No. 6, 2002
  3. "Artilleriya i minomety XX veka", Smolensk, Rusich, 2001
  4. BM-13 "Katyusha", ???
  5. http://butertank.narod.ru
  6. M-Hobby, 9/1997
  7. A. Galushko, M. Kolomiets. "Boi za Kharkov v Mae 1942 goda", Frontovaya Illyustratsia/Frontline Illustration, 6/2000 (2nd ed.)
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