LARS

Description

The Light Artillery Rocket System (LARS) developped at the point in the middle of the Sixties, was adopted by the German army in 1969 and affected at a rate of a battery of eight launchers per division. Each battery includes/understands moreover two systems of fire control system Fieldguard assembled on truck 4 X 4 and one vehicle of supply of one hundred quarante-quatre rockets. With the LARS II, improvement of the former model, each launcher from now on is assembled to the back of a truck chassis MAN 6 X 6 of 7 000 kg including/understanding two sets of eighteen tubes installed coast at coast. The empennΘes rockets with solid fuel can be drawn in 17,5 S, their recharging manual requiring approximately 15 min; the ranges minimal and maximum respectively reach 6 and 14 km. The rocket can receive heads of several types, of which the DM-711 equipped with five anti-tank mines AT-2 slowed down by parachute, the explosive DM-21 with fragmentation and the DM-701 charged with eight anti-tank mines AT1. The German army currently holds a total of 209 LARS II which are probably assigned to the units of reserve.