Description
Launched in 1976 under a feasibility study, the phase of definition of the design of a system of rocket launcher for an artillery of overall action (General Support Rocket System GSRS) was entrusted at five various firms. After comparative analysis of the solutions suggested, the company Boeing Aerospace and Vought Corporation (today the LTV Aerospace and Defence Company) were retained to contribute until the stage of validation of the project, the system envisaged in front of rerspecter the standards of the weapons of NATO. The tests of again system of weapon proceeded in 1979 and at the beginning of 1980, and the Vought company carried it. The initial initials of GSRS changed to lead to the final name of Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) or system of multiple rocket launchers (LRM). The first battery of Coil-Propelled Launcher Loaders (SPLLâ–‘ assembled on frame m2 IFV was delivered to the American army in 1982, knowing that this one was to perceive some at the time a total of 333 until ninety among the countries of Europe which decided to obtain these materials appear the United Kingdom (67 SPLL), Germany (202), France (56), and Italy (20), the Netherlands having xpressed the desire to get thirty specimens of them as soon as their means of financing would allow them. The majority of the systems intended for these countries must be built by a consortium Europeans. Each SPLL of NATO transports twelve rockets within two frameworks to six tubes of launching and can be automatically reloaded in ten minutes starting from a vehicle of supply. it fires a rocket on a floor and solid propelling load, for which there are four categories of heads. the first model says Phase 1 contains submunitions and sends until approximately 30 km its 644 small M77 bombs to fragmentation and hollow-charge for double purpose, of a unit weight of 0,230 kg and able to perforate some 100 mm of shielding. The second model, Phase II, carry twenty-eight anti-tank mines AT-2 slowed down by parachute, developments in Germany.
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