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- From: Joseph Askew <jaskew@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
- Subject: Re: What are Katyusha rockets?
- Message-ID: <By6J5n.I9I@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Summary: It's a girls name!
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Statistics, Pure & Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide
- References: <BxyupK.FBp@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:27:22 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From Joseph Askew <jaskew@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
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- In article <BxyupK.FBp@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz (Mike Campbell) writes:
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- >From Mike Campbell <mike@aloysius.equinox.gen.nz>
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- >> From woody@udcf.gla.ac.uk (Ian Woodrow)
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- >The term "Katyusha" was originally a nickname given to unguided
- >surface to surface rockets by Soviet troops in WWII. Unfortunately
- >I don't know what it means! Another term used, by the Germans, was
- > "Stalin's Organ", due to the sound made by the rockets in the air.
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- "Katyusha" is a Russian girls name. The original rockets were very very
- secret (like just about everything else in the xUSSR) and so there were
- no markings or anything else on the packaging or rockets except a large
- "K" - indicating the Komsomol factory in Saratov (?Not sure about this!!)
- made them. The Russian troops had no name for them and so gave them a
- common Russian female name. Or so the story goes.
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- >The original rocket was 82mm, weighed 8 kg, with a 3.05 kg
- >warhead, 1 kg of propellant and a range of 5500m.
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- I thought the original rocket was 120mm or there abouts?
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- Joseph Askew
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- jaskew@spam.maths.adelaide.edu At dusk I made my camp amoung the mountains.
- Disclaimer? Sue, see if I care Only a few peaks rise as high as this house,
- One China One Korea One Eire32 Facing the crags, it overlooks winding streams.
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